Details
Contributor Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist.
Title [Pencil study and corresponding prints showing the storefront of C. & N. Jones, stockings, N. W. cor. 2nd & Chestnut St., 1832] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1832-1850
Date [ca. 1832-ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 drawing : pencil ; 14 x 11 cm (5.5 x 4.5 in.)
2 prints : engraving and wood engraving ; 10 x 8 cm. (4 x 3 in.) or smaller.
Description Series containing a pencil study, engraving, and wood-engraved periodical illustration of the stocking store that was razed circa 1832. Images show a wood-frame house with a large front window, outside cellar door, two stacked small side windows, and gambrel roof with chimney. The building is adorned with signage reading "Stockings. C & N. Jones." All of the graphics contain shading around the foot of the building. Ann Jones purportedly operated a stocking store from the same location during the 1750s.
Is referenced by See Snyder, Mirror of America 179
Notes Attributed to James Queen by Marion Carson.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript notes below image of P.2017.8.29: N.W. Corner of 2nd & Chestnut; Original of plates; M3727.
P.2017.8.30 titled: N.W. Cor. 2nd & Chestnut St.
P.2017.8.31 is clipping with letter-press text on verso.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
LCP duplicate copy of engraving [(1) 1525.F.17g] does not include manuscript note attributing print to Queen as noted by Snyder.
See LCP Poulson's Scrapbooks vol. 5, p. 28 and p. 31 and vol. 7, p.21.
Subject C. & N. Jones.
Clothing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 200 block.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - A-Z -Jones [P.2017.8.30-32]
Accession number P.2017.8.30
P.2017.8.31
P.2017.8.32