Details
Creator Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist.
Contributor Heppenheimer & Maurer, printer.
Centennial Album, copyright holder.
Title [Centennial Memorial] [graphic] / L. Maurer.
Publisher New York: Lith. of Heppenheimer & Maurer, 22 & 24 N. William St
Date c1875
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 31 x 49 cm. (12 x 19.25 in.)
Description Allegorical print showing the figure of liberty holding a laurel wreath over a bust of George Washington that is mounted on a pedestal reading “E. Pluribus Unum 1876 1776”. The image of two overlapping torches separates the dates on the pedestal and an American flag drapes the bust. The figures are surrounded by an eagle, American flags and oak leaves intertwined with a banner that reads “These United Colonies Are And Of Right Ought To Be Free And Independent States,” a quote from the Declaration of Independence.
Notes pdcp00038
Copyrighted by the "Centennial Album."
Title from duplicate in the collections of the Boston Athenauem, Boston, Massachusetts.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Centennial
Trimmed.
Subject Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Statues.
Liberty.
Eagles.
Flags -- American.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Allegorical prints -- 1870-1880.
Printer Centennial Album, copyright holder.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Philadelphiana – Centennial