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.
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Engraved Plate from the Guildhall Library Coade Catalogue.
It uses the same plate as the Bibliotheque Nationale Coade Catalogue.
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
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
for the complete 1799 list see - https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-coade-list-of-1799.html
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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-
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.
The items on the engravings are not numbered suggesting this is from the earliest iteration.
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/alma:9932847843408651
They have a separate photocopy of Nat. Arts Library Size and Price list.
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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