Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [P. R. Schuyler, furnishing undertaker, N.E. cor. Beaver & 4th Sts., Philadelphia. N. B. lots for sale in Monument Cemetery on reasonable terms. Also single interments.] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17, So. 5th. St.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1848
Date ca. 1848
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 22 x 30 cm. (8.75 x 11.75 in.)
Description Advertisement showing a funeral possession led by an empty hearse passing by the two-and-one-half story residential business front of undertaker "P.R. Schuyler." A sign with the name of the proprietor and illustrated with a coffin adorns the arbor adjacent to the building. Trees line the sidewalk on which a lady, holding a parasol, strolls. She precedes the first (and fully visible) horse-drawn carriage in the procession on the cobblestone street. Also shows partial views, predominately roof and upper windows, of neighboring and surrounding buildings. The hearse driver wears mourning attire including a top hat with ribbon.
Is referenced by Wainwright 261
Notes Title from duplicate in the collections of the Atwater Kent Museum.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: [illegible] NE cor. Beaver & 4th. Aug. 1847.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 537
LCP copy trimmed and lacking title in English and German.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Schuyler, Philip R.
Undertaking -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hearses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Beaver Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 300 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus) 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W261 [P.2151]
Accession number P.2151