Details
Contributor Bognard, J., printer.
Hutinet, D., printer.
John A. Lowell & Co., printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909,
Title [Sharpless & Sons trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher FRANCE. Paris. 1880
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 13 prints : 12 chromolithographs and 1 engraving ; 11 x 9 cm. (4.25 x 3.5 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting women in a variety of settings, including a woman sitting on the beach with a parasol and fan; a woman attired in gypsy-inspired clothing kneeling next to an urn; the bust of a woman wearing a large plumed hat superimposed onto a painting palette; and another bust portrait of a woman wearing a hat. Also shows men in hunting gear with rifles and dogs; clowns balancing on the hardware of a clock; a couple on the beach stopped in front of an enormous hermit crab, birds and guitar; a chef wielding a large knife with his hand around the throat of a large duck; a couple standing inside of a large lantern; men working on a large paper lantern that hangs from a tree branch; a couple being transported in a covered gondola; and a table containing wine, fruit, bread and dishes superimposed onto a painting palette.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers and engravers include D. Hutinet (Paris), Bognard (Paris) and John A. Lowell & Co. (Boston).
Advertising text printed on versos: Sharpless & Sons, importers, jobbers & retailers of dry goods, 801, 803, 805 & 807 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Sharpless & Sons.
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Beaches.
Birds.
Clowns.
Cooks.
Couples.
Crabs.
Dogs.
Ducks.
Food.
Gondolas.
Guitars.
Hunting.
Knives.
Lanterns.
Palettes.
Paper lanterns.
Time clocks.
Women -- Clothing & dress.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Engravings -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909,
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Sharpless [1975.F.760; 1975.F.762; 1975.F.766-768; 1975.F.780; 1975.F.794; 1975.F.812; 1975.F.814; 1975.F.825; 1975.F.838-840]
Accession number [various]