Details
Contributor Vickery, Peleg Orison, 1836-1902, publisher.
Title Book of cabinet chromos 1881 [graphic].
Publisher Augusta, Me: Published by P.O. Vickery
Publisher MAINE. Augusta. 1881
Date 1881
Physical Description 1 volume (30 prints): chromolithographs; volume 19 x 12 cm.(7.25 x 4.75 in.)
Description Subscriber's premium comprised of a series of titled chromolithographs depicting portraits of historical figures and genre, religious, sentimental, and allegorical scenes. Images include "Beauty and Her Pets" showing a young lady feeding doves at her window garden; a robed woman "At The Cross"; the "Autumn Beauties" of a girl on a swing with her cat in her lap; a woman picking flowers in "Shoo Fly"; "The Sailor Girl"; "Our Idol," a lavishly attired Victorian girl; a woman near a fireplace showing "Maternal Affection" as she holds her baby to her breast; "The Flower Angels"; "The Angel of Song" in a bird's nest; a "Little Tot" of a girl; "The Flower Girl" in a wooded area with her dog; "Young Captain Jinks"; "Little Buttercup"; a woman pondering "Yes Or No" to a written marriage proposal; the engaged woman holding a portrait photograph in "Yes"; portraits of George and Martha Washington and Henry W. Longfellow; chicks confronting "The Unwelcome Visitor" of a frog; a mother kissing the hand of her daughter - "Grandma's Pet" - in a highchair next to her grandmother; "The Angel's Message"; "A Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" family portrait; "The Young Student" reading on a grassy cliff overlooking a cove; puppies learning "The First Lesson" of hunting vermin; "Puss in Boots" showing a kitten in a boot; the buck "The Monarch of the Glen"; a girl covered in ink from her "Little Mischief" to write with a quill pen; children "Fruit Gatherers" at a fruit tree by a lake; and a woman on an evening "Meditation" near a sun dial.
Notes Copyrighted.
Presented to every subscriber to The People’s Illustrated Fireside Magazine.
Case shaped liked book binding and illustrated on recto and verso. Images include vignette showing a hearth and floral and geometric pictorial details.
Text on spine reads: Premium with The Peoples Illustrated Fireside Magazine. 32 Gems.
Prints numbered lower left corner: 1-2; 4-23; 26-33. Some in manuscript.
Peleg Orison Vickery, publisher and politician, established Fireside Magazine in 1874. The periodical contained fictional stories and served as a mail order catalog.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Subject Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Portraits.
Washington, Martha, 1731-1802 -- Portraits.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 -- Portraits.
Angels.
Animals.
Children.
Clothing & dress.
Families.
Holidays.
Marriage proposals.
Mothers.
Recreation.
Religion.
Genre Premiums -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Printer Vickery, Peleg Orison, 1836-1902, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection [P.2011.10.1a-dd]
Accession number P.2011.10.1a-dd