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PG-P.774.031
21 Sep 1774:21 (2387)
Nicholas Brooks, takes this method to return his sincere
thanks to his friends and customers for their past favours,
and begs leave to acquaint them, he is removed from his late
dwelling-house, in Market-street, to the house lately
occupied by Mr. Thomas Irwin, on the east side of Second-
street, between Market and Chestnut-steets, and three doors
above Black-horse alley; he has just imported, and has now
opened and exhibited in a convenient room, where all
gentlemen and ladies, who delight in the fine arts, and in
the copyists of nature, are invited to regale themselves at
this new exhibition; in this collection, among many others,
are the following: the cartoons, after Raphael, beautifully
painted; the four seasons, after Rosalba, beautifully
painted, peace and plenty, finely coloured, and beautifully
ornamented; elegant pieces, in green and gold frames, vis.
Lady Huntingdon: flora; the letter-woman; the oyster-woman;
the bathing beauty; Miss Yates, in the character of Electra;
the lady's maid soaping linen; Abraham and Hagar; Joseph and
Potiphar's wife; Samson in distress, &c. &c. Hieroglyphicks.
. . of a christian; Hieroglyphicks of a natural man, and the
tree of life; the Rev. Mr. William Romaine, James Horvey,
David Jennings, Philip Dodderidge, George Whitefield, Andrew
Kinsman, Thomas Jones, John Bunyan, John Wesley, Richard de
Courcey, Torial Foss, John Edwards, Martin Madan, and a
great many other divines; landscapes, views of capital
cities, scripture places, &c.&c. the passions of the soul,
as they are expressed in the human countenance, by LeBrun;
with a variety of elegant engravings and metzotintoes, by
the greatest artists in Rome and London;[one line] a great
variety of drawing-books, best water-colours, camel-hair
pencils, Indian ink and crayons; a very elegant collection
of copper-plate copybooks, from the earliest attempts to the
compleating of the most accomplished penman;. . . [35 lines]
a good assortment of the very best fiddle-strings, just come
from Italy; instructions, and other music, for almost every
kind of instrument;. . . [4 lines] London made German
flutes. . . [9.5 lines].
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