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P.S. Duval & Co.'s steam lithographic establishment / On stone by Schussele.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 9 no 41
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- Format:
- Image
- Author/Creator:
- P.S. Duval & Son, lithographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lithography, American--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Lithography, American.
- Washington, George, 1732-1799--Portraits--Specimens.
- Washington, George.
- Washington, George, 1732-1799.
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- Advertisements -- Lithography -- United States -- 1800-1900.
- Artists' devices -- United States -- 1800-1900.
- Chromolithographs -- United States -- 1800-1900.
- Trade cards -- Lithography -- United States -- 1800-1900.
- Advertisements.
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print (trade card) : chromolithograph ; image 20 x 12 cm, sheet 22 x 14 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : P.S. Duval & Co., [1852]
- Summary:
- Subject: An advertisement detailing the services offered by P.S. Duval & Co. The text begins with an illuminated capital letter depicting lithographers at work. At the bottom of the text is a tableaux of practitioners of the fine and applied arts. To the left the text is bordered with flowers. To the right is a bust-length portrait of Washington in civilian dress in three-quarter view turned to his left. The portrait is set in an oval frame at the base of which is a bunch of flowers and a scroll bearing the motto "E Pluribus Unum." Below the portrait is an allegorical female figure representing the United States. At her feet rest symbols of the arts.
- Notes:
- Title continues: Artizans Building. Ranstead Place. West from No. 26 South Fourth Street. Philadelphia.
- Print published in a catalog to an exhibition held by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1852.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2023 from Eclectibles.
- OCLC:
- 57746390
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