Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Sons, printer.
Title Diploma awarded by the Lebanon County Agricultural and Horticultural Society. [graphic] / James Queen delt.
Publisher Philadelphia: P. S. Duval & Sons, lith
Date [ca. 1858]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph tinted with one stone; 57 x 48 cm.(22.5 x 19 in.)
Description Fair certificate containing an ornate border with seven vignettes related to agriculture and horticulture. Vignettes show a small herd of sheep; a farmer at his plow; a group of cattle; a town hall; a pair of horses; an iron worker with his assistant at a forge (resembling John Neagle's "Pat Lyon at his Forge"); and a gathering of barn animals. Animals include a pig, chickens, ducks, geese, and a turkey. Border also includes farm produce such as squashes, cherries, grape vines, herbs, and plants in addition to agricultural and farm implements, including a butter churn, rake, hoe, basket, pitcher, pail, sickle, shovel, and an ax. Also contains a vignette showing the coat of arms of Pennsylvania including the banner "Virtue, Liberty and Independence."
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Issued October 8, 1858 to Mrs. S. B. Lehman for greatest variety verbena. Sawr. Rightmeyer, Secretary. Simeon Guilford, President.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 54
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 65 D 956
Subject Lebanon County Agricultural and Horticultural Society.
Farmers' groups -- Pennsylvania.
Agricultural exhibits -- Pennsylvania -- Lebanon County.
Agricultural machinery & implements.
Farm produce.
Livestock.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Certificates -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 65 D 956