This post is to act as an aide memoire and give the user easy access to the 1799 list.
It includes a list of places in England and Ireland where Coade Pieces were supplied.
I have added and will continue to add comments as I proceed with my Coade posts.
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For much more on the two Coade premises at Pedlar's Acre and the Exhibition Gallery opened in 1799North side of the Southern approach to Westminster Bridge see -
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The list here should be compared with the products available in the Coade Catalogue of 1784.
It is not in Chronological order
The best digitalised copy currently available is that in the Bibliotheque Nationale on Paris.
This copy has the advertisement and price list. It has the later ammendments in pen and ink.
There are in all 11 copies of the Coade Catalogue that I am so far aware of - it is possible that further copies will appear - I have had access to all except the copies in the Metropolitan Museum and the Library at Leeds University .
Of these 11 copies -
I. The Bibliotheque Nationale copy - It has the pen and ink amendments -
2. Yale Centre Catalogue with plates - but it lacks the
introduction and size and price list. It is available online.
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/alma:9932847843408651
3. A full catalogue
in the private collection of Peter Hone (with ink amendments) ex Bonhams. I
have now photographed it and will post on line in due course.
4. Guildhall Library,
London. A catalogue with 67 plates but lacks the size or price list. I am awaiting full details of
the contents. They also have a photocopy of Nat. Arts Library size and price list.
Not available on line. I hope to publish this in due course.
5. 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
details. Not available on line.
6. The British Museum / British Library Catalogue - Paginated
- but with no size or price list.
7. The Royal Academy Catalogue - this appears to be a fairly
complete copy with the amendments in ink. Not currently available on line - I have photographed it and will post it in due course.
8. The University of Leeds Library Catalogue. John Evans
Bedford Library. It seems to be almost complete and includes size and price
list and 64 plates. It has the pen and ink amendments - Not available on line. I have spoken with a librarian but so far havn't seen the contents!
9. Soane Museum - John Soane's copy - an edition with the plates with a separate size and price list. I have now photographed it and will post it on line in due course.
Two Catalogues / price lists exist with no engravings attached.
10. National Library of Wales - now confirmed as only the size and price
list. - not available on line
11. The National Arts Library. V and A. It has the unamended
Catalogue/Price List but no plates - it is available on line.
For more on the catalogues see my post -
The poor resolution scans below from -
The Frontispiece is the the Pelican Life Insurance Company entablature of 1797 by John de Vaere (1755 - 1830). De Vaere took over the roll of chief sculptor at the Coade manufactory after the death of John Bacon in 1799.
This
large allegorical sculpture group originally sat above
the insurance office on Lombard Street in London and is now preserved by the
Museum of London.
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The Inside Frontispiece -
This reuses the plate designed by John Bacon I for the Coade Trade Card which seems to have first appeared in a version of the 1784 Catalogue.
see my post on the various iterations of this engraving -
The Seasons by John Bacon
30. Charity - Two of these figures have recently come to light
https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2026/06/coade-and-marine-society.html
For the Marine Society version see -
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/old-master-sculpture-works-of-art/john-bacon-1740-1799-british-circa-1777-charity
For the Cheffins statue currently with Peter Hone and being restored see -
https://fineart.cheffins.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-691---a-coade-stone-figure-group-of-a-woman-and-child/?lot=302731&sd=1
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The Group of Acis Galatea and Polyphemus.
For a fairly in deph essay see -
Page 25.
No. 47. Bust of the Earl of Chatham William Pitt the Elder. see -
Page 27.
62. A bust of Sarah Siddons - no examples are known.
64. A bust of Richard Meade - presumably after Roubiliac- Terracotta in the BM Marble at the Royal College of Physicians - disappeared.
No. 72. The Coade Stowe Sarcophagus.
A version was recently in the collection of Peter Hone.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2026/magnum-opus-act-ii-figure-form/a-marble-urn-and-lid-the-stowe-sarcophagus-rome
No. 88. The Chimneypiece with reliefs of Flora and Pomona.
The Reliefs are Illustrated in the 1784 Catalogue.
Page 33.
98. Bust of John Wesley - evidently the subscription was successful and several have survived - with a version of the Roubiliac late type socle.
104. The bust of Raleigh - an example survives on the orangery at Bicton, Devon along with a bust of Nelson (both have the Roubiliac late type socle).
107. The Bust of Milton - again it uses the Roubiliac type socle.
101 & 102. Hymen and Psyche - lamp bases modelled by John Bacon. -
A Pair were sold by Sothebys - 26 May 2022 stamped Coade, Lambeth.
73.5cm high, 38cm. wide, 14cm. deep; 2 ft. 5in., 1ft. 3in.,
5½in. (including Shades) -
See the pair with provenance Edward Meldecott, Salcombe Park, Herts; Christie's, Salcombe Park, 11 October 1993, lot 132;Sotheby's London, Important English Furniture, 7 July 2000,
lot 6.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/monte-alverno-an-irish-private-collection/a-pair-of-george-iii-bronzed-coade-stone-lamps
https://www.adams.ie/9063-lot-549-A-PAIR-OF-GEORGE-III-BRONZED-COADE-STONE-LAMPS-LATE-18TH-CENTURY?Itemid=
https://www.christies.com.cn/lot/a-pair-of-george-iii-bronzed-coadestone-3021758/?intObjectID=3021758&lid=1
Another pair were recently in the collection of Peter Hone.
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Page 34.
110. Bust of Pope - presumably after Roubiliac - as yet no example has appeared.
113. Statue of Paul Rubens - presumably after the original by Rysbrack.
114. Statue of van Dyke - Ditto.
These two statuettes were nos. 49 and 50 in the Catalogue of 1784.
No examples have yet appeared.
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123. The Laocoon, No 44 in the Coade Catalogue of 1784. See -
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This Coade artificial stone sculptural group put up 1797/98 was made at the Lambeth manufactory. It stood above the entrance of the Pelican Life
Insurance Office at 70 Lombard Street in the City of London.
70 Lombard Street (demolished 1915) was the first purpose
built bank in the City of London. Dating from 1757, it was designed by the
architect (and sculptor) Sir Robert Taylor for the merchant banker Sir Charles Asgill
(1714-1788).
The Insurance company was founded in 1797 as the Pelican and British
Empire Life Office. An offshoot of the Phoenix Fire Office, set up
specifically to grant insurances and provide endowments for children on their
reaching maturity (thus the emblem, the pelican feeding its young). The new
company took over the first purpose built bank in the City of London, designed
by Robert Taylor for the banker Sir Charles Asgill, at 70 Lombard Street.
The standard bears
the letters 'PLIO' which stand for Pelican Life Insurance Office. The
allegorical figures suggest that the Company is timeless and offers dependents
security through life insurance.
The group was modelled by John de Vaere in 1797 after
engravings by Lady Diana Beauclerk (Diana St John, Viscountess Bolingbroke )in the book 'The Fables of John Dryden'.
The Pelican Life Insurance Company of 70 Lombard St was founded in 1793. In
1915 this Coade group was moved to the Sherborne Lane entrance of the
Phoenix Assurance Company's offices in King William Street.
It was donated to the London County Council in 1934. The
group was later housed for a time at the Geffrye Museum, then in the garden at
the Horniman Museum, before it was transferred to Museum of London in 1999.
An engraving was published in the European Magazine in April 1801 (see British Museum 1875,0710.5463), wherein (pp.263-64).
It is noted 'The ideas upon which this
group was formed, were taken from some of the elegant vignettes, from the
pencil of Lady Diana Beauclerk, which decorate the late edition of Dryden's
Fables' (1797), but there does not appear to be any direct correlation between
Beauclerk's published illustrations and De Vaere's design (see however pp.60,
95, 115).
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The British Museum (Banks Collection) Pelican Insurance Trade Card.
Height: 103 millimetres (sheet), Width: 176 millimetres (sheet).
The 1800 inscription in ink refers to when it was acquired.
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Illustration - published in the 'European Magazine', April 1801, article
pp.262-64.
'Some account of the Pelican Life Office. [With an
emblematical plate.]'.
Size - Height: 108 millimetres, Width: 182 millimetres.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1875-0710-5463
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Here we have the reference to the manufacture of the Acis and Galatea group by Rossi.
The reference to "young sculptors rising of merit may find employment in modelling, by applying to Mr Sealy,at his manufactory, Narrow Wall, Lambeth....." is informative and shows the forward thinking of John Sealy (and Eleanor Coade II).
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