Zan(n)etti & Agnew

Manchester; carvers, gilders, barometer, thermometer, mathematical and philosophical instrument, looking-glass and picture frame makers, print sellers, publishers, dealers in artist's materials, opticians etc. (1810–40)

Addresses given at 94 Market St, 1810–25; 25 Gartside St in 1825; 10 Exchange St, 1825–29; at no. 18, 1832–33 and no. 14, 1836–40. Advertisement in Pigot and Dean's Directory for Manchester and Salford, 1824–25, gives address at the ‘Repository of Arts’, 94 Market St, and announces that they ‘are now carrying on the above branches on a more extensive scale and, being the Manufacturers, they are enabled to offer every article on as liberal terms as any house in the Kingdom. They have always on hand a very great variety of PIER and CHIMNEY GLASSES, MIRRORS, LUSTRES, CANDELABRAS … Upholsterers, Cabinet Makers, Glass Dealers, &c. supplied with Plate Glass of any dimensions; old Glasses polished and silvered; old Frames Repaired, gilt and altered to the present fashions …’. Zanetti & Agnew are named in the Dunham Massey papers on 31 December 1822 receiving £274 9s for regilding and cleaning pictures etc. A billiard table by the firm is at Manchester City Art Gallery. [D; Goodison, Barometers] See Agnew & Zanetti.

Source: DEFM