Details
Creator Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, artist.
Contributor Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.
J. & W.W. Warr, engraver.
Title The Chinese collection in the lower saloon of the new building at the corner of 9th & George Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] : Is now open to visitors every day excepting Sunday from 10 o'clock A.M. to 9 o'clock P.M. / Drawn on stone by A. Newsam; engraved by J. & W.W. Warr.
Publisher Philadelphia: P.S. Duval, lithr
Date [ca. 1838]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 54 x 38 cm.(21.25 x 15 in.)
Description Advertisement for Nathan Dunn's Chinese collection housed in the lower floors of the Philadelphia Museum also known as the Chinese Museum that was built 1836-1838. Contains an ornamental border, vignettes, a landscape view, and descriptive text. Border includes filigree and 4 banners adorned with Chinese lettering. Vignettes show a Chinese woman from high society at leisure; a Chinese peasant man, and peasant woman with baby; and a Chinese fisherman on his boat. View shows a Chinese landscape including a pagoda and sailing vessels on the water. The text, engraved by the Warrs, describes the exhibition space (154 x 65 feet) and collection, including "50 Figures As Large As Life" in "Native Costume" from the "highest Mandarin" to the Blind Mendicant" and "Many Thousand Specimens Both in Natural History and Miscellaneous Curiosities," illustrating the "Appearance, Manners, & Customs of more than 300,000,000 Asiatics." Also contains 4 numbered "Chinese Maxims." Dunn, a Philadelphia merchant involved in the China trade, amassed his collection 1818-1831. The collection was displayed at the Philadelphia Museum 1838-1841 and then removed to London in 1842.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Inscribed on recto: 1838.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 31
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Albert Newsam Collection, V-100, Box 10, Folder 2
Subject Philadelphia Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Chinese Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Galleries & museums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Chinese -- Exhibitions.
Geographic subject China -- Pictorial works.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Advertisements -- 1830-1840.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Albert Newsam Collection, V-100, Box 10, Folder 2