Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.
Title Eugene Roussel's celebrated mineral waters in glass botttles for hotels, families & shipping, [graphic] / Drawn on stone by J. Queen.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lithy of P. S. Duval
Date [ca. 1843]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph; 45 x 33 cm.(17.5 x 13 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the storefront with large display windows of "Edward Roussel, Foreign Perfumery & Fancy Articles, French Perfumery, Mineral Water" at 114, i.e., 318 Chestnut Street. Within the store, a clerk serves mineral water to a couple at the counter. The woman sits, her parasol by her side as the man stands. Tall glass-door cabinets rise behind the clerk. Materials displayed in the windows include a stuffed bear, bottles, mason jars, canisters, and framed certificates. A drain pipe adorns the building. Also contains vignettes above and below the title showing the business's mineral water delivery wagon, and silver medals awarded to the perfumer by the "Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, 1824" and "Reward of Skill and Ingenuity, 1842." Roussel operated from the site 1843-1849. Bear's oil was a popular product offered by Philadelphia perfumers, the major American suppliers, between the 1830s and 1850s. The oil was often used as a hair product.
Is referenced by Wainwright 114
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 212
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 Q 32
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Stores & Shops
Trimmed.
Subject Roussel, Eugene.
Perfumes industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 38 Q 32