Details
Title [Trade cards for Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co.] [graphic].
Publisher [Cincinnati]
Publisher OH. Cincinnati. 1860-1869
Date [1860-1869]
Physical Description 5 prints: 2 chromolithographs and 3 color lithographs mounted on paper; 8 x 12 cm. (3.25 x 4.5 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for the Cincinnati lithographers, engravers, and printers. Imagery includes an allegorical female figure seated near objects symbolic of the arts and sciences, including a paint palette, compass, globe, and books and scenes of a farmer at his plow, a traveling locomotive, and sailing vessels on the ocean. Other pictorial details include ornate frames surrounding advertising text. Frames contain scrolls and bunches of grapes. The premier firm established in 1856 operated as Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co. between 1860 and 1869.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Color lithographs printed in either blue, green, or violet ink.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co.
Lithographers -- Ohio -- Cincinnati.
Farming.
Vessels.
Railroad locomotives.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Trade cards -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.146e, h, j- l & o]
Accession number P.9349.146e
P.9349.146h
P.9349.146j
P.9349.146k
P.9349.146l
P.9349.146o