Details
Creator Nissle, J., artist.
Contributor Herline & Co., printer.
Title John Weik's (Philadelphia) kochbuecher (cookbooks) [graphic] / Invented & drawn on stone by J. Nissle.
Publisher Philadelphia : Herline & Co. 2 N[or]th 6th St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date 1856
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 67 x 86 cm (26.25 x 33.5 in.)
Description Whimsical publisher's advertisement containing four vignettes in a fanciful border of food imagery surrounding a list of cookbook titles in German and English authored by Marianne Struf and the steward of the Union League, William Vollmer. Vignettes depict three quirky scenes representing agricultural work, hunting, fishing, and fine dining. Also contains a scene depicting four women peeling apples, mincing meat, and baking in a kitchen. Vignettes include an African American man waiter and an African American woman cook. Fanciful border contains stone pedestals adorned with seals comprised of cooking implements, as well as a basket of bread, bottles of wine, a crab holding oranges, a tureen of soup, dead game, ears of corn, plates, a pitcher, a coffee grinder, and mischievous monkeys.
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by J. Weik in the Eastern District Court of Pa.
Printed above image: Life Preserver.
Printed under title in German: All five books can be had here.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 126
LCP exhibition catalogue: The Larder invaded, aft. p. 9.
LCP exhibition catalogue: Philadelphia revisions #32.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1973, p. 44.
Top corner and center edge mended.
Purchase 1973.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject Struf, Marianne.
Vollmer, Wm. (William)
Weik, John publisher.
Advertising -- Books.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women cooks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African Americans in advertising.
Agriculture.
Cookery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fishing.
Hunting.
Meat.
Publishers and publishing.
Waiters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Advertisements [8074.F.1]
Accession number 8074.F.1