Details
Creator Croome, Meignelle & Co., engraver.
Title Certificate of marriage. [graphic] / Engraved and Published by Croome Meignelle & Co. Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia : Croome Meignelle & Co
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date [ca. 1846]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Description Marriage certificate illustrated with vignettes within an ornamental border. Depicts vignettes representing peace and love including doves near an altar with an eternal flame, and cherubs floating on clouds, reaping grain, and rowing a gondola.
Notes Issued to John A. Jones and Mary Anne Dickerson. Signed by Rev. William Douglass, officiant, and by Samuel Van Brackle and George W. Hopewell, witnesses.
Copyright secured.
Title from item.
Date based on date of the event represented.
Purchase 1993.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note Croome, Meignelle & Co. was a Philadelphia engraving firm operated by engraver, William Croome, and banknote engraver, James Meignelle in the 1840s.
Subject African Americans -- Marriage -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Doves.
Putti.
Genre Engravings -- 1840-1850.
Marriage certificates -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *albums (flat) [P.9427] - Dickerson Family Collection - Miscellaneous
Accession number P.9427.26