Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer.
Contributor Printer P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
Title Shad fishing (taking up the net.) [graphic] : On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance. / From nature and on stone by James Queen.
Publisher Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Co. steam lith press,
Date [1855]
Extent 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 28 x 34 cm. (11 x 13.25 in.)
Description View of several fishermen, including African American men, most waist deep in the river and all but one in a semi-circle, gathering up their catch into a rowboat. A Philadelphia pier lined with residences, the mills of Gloucester, New Jersey, and sailboats on the river are visible in the foreground and background.
Notes Manuscript note on recto: April- May 1855.
Genre Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860.
Subject Shad fishing--Pennsylvania.
Fishing nets--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
African American men--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Mills--New Jersey--Gloucester.
Spatial coverage Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Is part of Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by Wainwright 335.
Has format TMP.objres.4593.jpg
Related resource http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W335.htm
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W335 [P.2189]
Accession number P.2189