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Wallace was a Scottish designer, caricaturist and lithographer best remembered for portraits of period celebrities.
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John Wallace, (d.1903)
Two Designs for Advertisements for Copes' Tobacco Products: Pilgrims on Horseback accompanied by a Tobacco Diety whose helpers are handing out pipes; and Coach Travel and Passengers at a busy Railway Station
pencil and watercolour, the other in brown wash, unframed
14½ x 19in.
a pair; and a print for the latter with a key identifying all the figures, such as Disraeli, Rossetti, Browning and Gladstone who supposedly endorsed the Cope products. (3)
Two Designs for Advertisements for Copes' Tobacco Products: Pilgrims on Horseback accompanied by a Tobacco Diety whose helpers are handing out pipes; and Coach Travel and Passengers at a busy Railway Station
pencil and watercolour, the other in brown wash, unframed
14½ x 19in.
a pair; and a print for the latter with a key identifying all the figures, such as Disraeli, Rossetti, Browning and Gladstone who supposedly endorsed the Cope products. (3)