“Nathan Drake, Colourman. . . . At the White Hart in Long-Acre; London. Sells all sorts of fine Colours & Oils for Painting. Prym’d Cloths, pencils, fine Tools and Palletts; Water Colours prepared in the neatest manner. Also Makes all sorts of Crayons in the best approved methods. Likewise, Lines cleans and mends Pictures and has every Article that is used in Painting or Drawing. all sorts of Colours & Oils for House Painting at the Lowest Rates.”

—From London Tradesmen’s Cards of the XVIII Century; An Account of their Origin and Use by Ambrose Heal, originally published in 1910.