Details
Creator Theo. Leonhardt & Son.
Title Gambrinus Unterstutzungus Gesellschaft [membership certificate]. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Theo. Leonhardt & Son, 324 & 326 Chestnut St
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 44 x 56 cm.(17.25 x 22.25 in.)
Description Membership certificate probably for a German brewing society. Includes a decorative border containing a portrait of King Gambrinus, the parton saint of beer and a universal symbol of beer and brewing; female allegorical figures representing hops and barley; a fermenter flanked by lions; and urns of flowers. Gambrinus portrait shows the king seated in front of a row of kegs and holding a goblet of beer. Allegorical figures shown as peasant girls holding a bale of barley and a stalk of hops.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 88
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: *NB 1 75 - 356
Subject German Americans -- Organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Brewing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Transfer lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Membership certificates -- 1870-1880.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP *NB 1 75 - 356