Needle Box Prints

GEORGE BAXTER (1804-1867): A Bicentenary Exhibition of Prints and Illustrations
at the E. J. Pratt Library, Victoria University

NEEDLE BOX PRINTS
(From "The Le Blond Book 1920" by Courtney Lewis)
In the early fifties of the nineteenth century it was, customary for ladies to purchase their needles in small boxes, on the outside of which was a print of about the size of 6 inches by 4 inches. Inside the box were numerous smaller boxes, containing needles of various sizes and on the cover of the smaller boxes was a 'needle-box' print. Baxter printed a good many of these prints, and also a good many of the needle-box sets. Baxter was probably the originator of these, coloured needle-prints, and, as in other things, Le Blond copied him. Both these colour printers published them in sets. Baxter, besides using them for needle-boxes, put some of his on stamped mounts.

Exhbition Home Missionary & Religious Prints Exhibition Series Crimean War Portraits Baxterotypes & Interiors Landscapes & Interiors Le Blond Ovals Kronheim Prints Needlebox Prints Plates of diagrams	PICTORIAL NEEDLE BOXES The Illustrations to the case of Pictorial Needle Boxes are printed in oil colours by BAXTER, the INVENTOR and PATENTEE.