The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes

Advertising Skit note for Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, the Public’s most Obed’t Serv’t, R. Ackermann, to the value of £100 more or less, 1 January 1803, promising to ‘pay one hundred pounds, more or less, for any fine drawings or execute orders for prints, drawings & ornaments & deliver them with expedition to any part of the world’, with a female allegory of art at left, very good and scarce
Outing unlisted £150-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.

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Rudolph Ackermann spent the first years of his working life as a successful coach maker in Germany and then London, but from 1795 focussed on setting up a print shop and school. Although he was an accomplished artist himself, he was primarily a businessman and his academy of arts and print shop was rightly very famous. His business survived him and continued into the late 1800s under the management of his children and grandchildren.
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