Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Sons, printer.
Title This diploma is awarded by the Sussex County Agricultural Society [graphic] / Js. Queen delt., Lith. of P.S. Duval & Son Philada.
Publisher Philadelphia : P.S. Duval & Son
Date [ca. 1858]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph on cardboard mount ; mount 62 x 46 cm (24.25 x 18 in.)
Description Certificate awarded by the Sussex County Agricultural Society and depicting vignettes of scenes of farming. In the top, shows allegories of "Liberty," depicted as a white woman with a pole and cap, and "Prosperity," depicted as a white woman with a cornucopia full of fruits and vegetables. In the background is a factory and sailing ships. In the center, shows a large crowd of men and women spectators watching a sulky horserace; fair attendees walking the grounds; large tents and stands and American flags flying on flagpoles; and houses and trees in the background. Vignettes around the image include: sheep; a farmer with two large pigs; a cow and a bull; a horse; a man driving a horse-drawn reaper; and fowl, including chickens, geese, and turkeys. Around the border are fruits, vegetables, wheat, corn, and farm implements, including plows, a shovel, rake, ax, and hoe.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Text printed and manuscript written on recto: To [Mr. Daniel Post Newton] for [Premium in filly & (illegible) 4 years old, Black Hawk (illegible considered?)] At their annual fair, held [at Newton Oct. 8 1858] [V.M. Drake] Secy. [Lewis Dunn] Prest.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Sussex County Agricultural Society (Sussex County, N.J.)
Allegories.
Agricultural equipment -- New Jersey -- Newton.
Agricultural exhibitions -- New Jersey -- Newton.
Agriculture -- New Jersey -- Sussex County -- Societies, etc.
Farm produce.
Farmers' groups -- New Jersey -- Newton.
Harness racing.
Horses -- New Jersey -- Newton.
Livestock.
Livestock shows -- New Jersey -- Newton.
Plows.
Spectators -- New Jersey -- Newton.
Agriculture.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Newton (New Jersey)
Genre Certificates -- 1850-1860.
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **GC - Certificates [P.2010.21.2]
Accession number P.2010.21.2