Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.
Title Washington and Lafayette Benefical Society. [graphic] : Incorporated April 12th 1825. / Desd. & on stone by J. Queen.
Publisher Philadelphia: P.S. Duval lith
Date [ca. 1845]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 67 x 50 cm.(26.25 x 19.5 in.)
Description Membership certificate containing a scene showing the December 31, 1777 meeting between Marquis De Lafayette and General Washington during the American Revolution. On the banks of the Delaware River, under the watch of guards, Washington attended by his officers extends his hand to the young Franch Major General who is accompanied by his two officers. The men stand in front of a row of tents beside which a band of uniformed militia stand near an armed frontiersman and Native American witnessing the event. In the background, militia troops drill and ships sail on the Delaware. Also contains a vignette showing a society member in his sick bed attended by his wife and fellow members. The seated men talk and sit at a table playing cards as the ailing man's son, holds a hoop, and cries at the foot of the bed. Vignette bordered by two posted schedules of the month, day, and hour of "Stated Meetings" for the year that is also printed with the notice that "The Roll shall be called precisely 30 Minutes after the time above specified. Also includes the American eagle holding a shield marked with the incorporation date of the society.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 983 Q 3
Subject Washington and Lafayette Beneficial Society.
Charitable organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Membership certificates -- 1840-1850.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 983 Q 3