The trade card of about 1784 was originally engraved by Paul Wray, after Charles Reuben Ryley.
The engraving here is interesting from the point of view that it shows a bottle kiln - as used to fire the Coade products with the kiln door open - it would have been bricked up during firing and iron bands attached on either side used to hold it tight. the iron attachment is shown on the left side of the doorway
Hestia wears a band carrying the legend: "Ignea vis" (‘the power of fire’) and above the kiln in the background "nec edax abolere vetustas" (from Book XV of Ovid's "Metamorphoses).
'And now my work is finished, which neither the anger of Jove, nor fire nor sword nor the passing years shall devour’).
With the figures of Time and Hestia in the foreground.
The goddess Hestia, keeper of hearth and home, with a
lit torch in one hand fending off Chronos, the Greek personification of Time,
who is attempting to seize a sculpted figure personifying Sculpture and
Architecture (as signified by the pair of compasses in one hand and a set
square in the other).
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The Trade Card pasted on to the soft cover of the Yale Centre for British Art Copy of the Coade Artificial Stone Catalogue of 1784.
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/alma:9932847843408651
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The Bibliothique Nationale Coade Catalogue engraving used as a frontispiece for the engravings section of the Catalogue.
This catalogue has been amended in ink - almost certainly by someone at the manufactory
John Taskers Book.
https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/viewer/35774/?offset=#page=33&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
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Engraved Plate from the Guildhall Library Coade Catalogue.
It uses the same plate as the Bibliotheque Nationale Coade Catalogue.
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The Royal Academy Coade Catalogue of 1784 Frontispiece.
This Catalogue belonged to John Yenn R.A.
Yenn was a pupil of William Chambers and will have known John Bacon I.
This copy uses the same plate as the frontispiece for the two Catalogues above.
the Guildhall Library Coade Catalogue and the Bibliotheque Nationale Coade Catalogue.
I am very grateful to Adam Waterton - Librarian of the Royal Academy for providing this image
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Coade Trade Card.
This appears to have come from the plate used on the two Catalogues noted above
British Museum.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Banks-106-7
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The Coade and Sealy Trade Card.
Post 1789? when John Sealy (1749 - 1813) perhaps became a partner in the business.
It is not entirely clear when he became a partner and Alison Kelly is not certain.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Banks-106-9
John Sealy and family members are buried at St Mary's Lambeth Church it is on the left as you walk into the churchyard from the forecourt of Lambeth
Palace. The first occupant was his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1806; later,
John, his brother, William, and sister-in-law, Harriet, with their children
Harriet and Thomas, along with five other family members.
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A later Trade Card (post 1799) printed after the
Establishment of the Coade Gallery on Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth a short distance from ye manufactory at Narrow Walls.
Mrs Coade took her cousin John Sealey (1749 - 1813) as partner in the business by 21 May 1789 (info Gunnis). He had previously worked at the manufactory for several years.
Sealy died in 1813 and William Croggsan toook over - Eleanor Coade was 80 years old.
Image from the British Museum.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Banks-106-8
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The Croggan Late Coade and Sealy Trade Card.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
William Croggan had had worked with the Coade Manufactory since abour 1813 after the death of John Sealy when the Company reverted to using the Coade name.
William Croggon bought the famous Coadestone works at the
death of Mrs Coade in 1821.
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O77531/trade-card-bacon-john-the/?carousel-image=2006AN0862
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The Coade Gallery List of 1799.
It includes the trade card engraving amended to Coades Gallery on a full page as the British Museum example of the trade card above.
for the complete 1799 list see - https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-coade-list-of-1799.html
Unfortunately the resolution here is not very good
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The Entrance to Coade and Sealey's Gallery.
Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, North Side.
with the relief designed by John Bacon and the Cryatids as used on Schomberg House.
It is not clear to me whether the relief was originally in the Manufactory on Narrow Walls and moved to the Westminster Bridge Road Gallery in 1799.
It was moved once again to the showrooms on the New Road (Euston Road). opened in 1821 by William Croggan after the death of Mrs Coade and his purchasing of the Coade business.
European Magazine Vol. 41, 1802.
The engraving - drawn and engraved by Samuel Rawle (1775 - 1860).
Rawle was born not in 1771, as sometimes stated, but in 1775
(and baptised 25 Feb 1776; some plates signed 'Rawle' are by his son George
(1802-1881 or later) who worked for his father.
The ground between Pedlar's Acre (Belvedere Road) and the New Inn on Westminster Bridge approach Rd was in 1798 let on building lease to Eleanor Coade, (fn. 155) and houses, known as Coade's Row, were built there, that at the corner of Belvedere Road, No. 102 (later No. 266) being used as a gallery or showrooms for products of Coade's Artificial Stone Factory.
It bore a tablet inscribed “Coade's Row, 1798,” (fn. 156) until 1908, when it was demolished for the widening of Belvedere Road.
Image here from the British Museum -
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Heal-106-7-
The Coade Caryatids on Schomberg House Pall Mall, St James, London.
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Of Tangential interest.
Ceres, An Illustration from the European Magazine -August 1789.
An
allegory of agriculture: Ceres reclining amidst a collection of farm
implements, she holds a sheaf of wheat and a scythe. Engraving by W Bromley,
1789, after a sculptural panel by Mrs E Coade.
The panel is in situ at
Stratfield Saye, Hampshire, seat of the Duke of Wellington, where it is called
Ceres at the harvest. Created 1789. Wheat. Agriculture.
Contributors: Eleanor
Coade (1708–1794); William Bromley (1769–1842).
Image below from the Bibliotheque National.
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Some Notes on the Catalogues.
So far I have discovered 12 Catalogues.
Two catalogues have no engravings and 5 have the engravings but no size / price list.
for an in depth look see - https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-coade-dying-gladiator.html
I havn't yet compared the contents of all the Catalogues and will do so once I have had sight of all the copies available to me. I suspect more copies will appear as more libraries are catalogued.
1. Yale Centre Catalogue with plates - but it lacks the introduction and size and price list - online.
2. Bibliotheque Nationale has the best full catalogue with size/price list - available on line. Each Item on the engravings is numbered.
https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/viewer/35774/?offset=#page=100&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
The items on the engravings are not numbered suggesting this is from the earliest iteration.
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/alma:9932847843408651
3. A more or less full catalogue with size and price list - it lacks the frontispiece - in a private collection (with added ink amendments). ex Bonhams. I will obtain full details in due course.
4. Guildhall Library, London. A catalogue with 67 plates /70 pages plates but lacks the size or price list. Each item in the catalogue engravings is numbered.
They have a separate photocopy of Nat. Arts Library Size and Price list.
5. National Library of Wales - I am awaiting details of the contents.
6. The Metropolitan Museum. New York. It has the engravings but it is not clear how many and whether it contains the introduction and size and price list. - I await further details.
7.The British Museum/ British Library Catalogue - Has the engravings - Paginated - no size or price list. The Items on the engravings are not numbered.
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_etchings-of-coades-art_coades-artificial-stone_1779/mode/1up
8. The Royal Academy Catalogue - this appears to be a fairly complete copy with amendments in ink.
Three Catalogues / Size Price Lists exist with no engravings attached.
9. Soane Museum - awaiting further information - an edition with the plates with a separate size and price list. I am awaiting further information.
10. The National Arts Library. V and A. Has the unamended Catalogue/Price List, but no plates - on line.
11. British Library Catalogue (no 2). Only contains the size and price list - no plates. Available on line.
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