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Details
Creator Dreser, William, b. ca. 1820, artist.
Title H. P. & W. C. Taylor perfumers [graphic] : Sons of and successors to Curtis Taylor original manufacturer of superior transparent soap shaving saponaceous compound &c. Eight highest premiums awarded to the Franklin and American Institute and at the World's Fair London 1851 / W. Dreser, delt. & lith.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed in colors by T. Sinclair, 101 Chesnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1851
Date [ca. 1851]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 45 x 59 cm. (17.75 x 23.5 in.)
Description Advertisement for the perfumery containing a central scene set within a border designed as a monument that is adorned with a vignette and pictorial details. Central image depicts a shipping scene at a pier above the Navy Yard on the Delaware River. Shows laborers loading a tall ship with goods from a pier on which a horse-drawn wagon and cart are surrounded by crates across from warehouses. Several members from the crew of the ship line the deck of the vessel. A barge is also moored near the pier. In the foreground, on the dock, a horse-drawn coach passes near a man loading a dray with crates marked "H.P. & W.C. Taylors Fancy Soaps Phila." under the watch of a gentleman as a freight rail car approaches. Sailing vessels are docked at another pier visible in the left of the image. Barrels, crates, and planks of wood line the wharf on which draymen load and transport goods. Vignette shows the exterior of the "H.P. & W.C Taylor, Transparent & Soaps" factory at 379-381, i.e., 641-643 North Ninth Street. A locomotive and freight car of the Norristown and Germantown Railroad passes in the street and pedestrians walk in front of and enter the factory. Banners reading "1819 Business Established 1819 Philadelphia," filigree, and sprigs of flowers flank the vignette.
Pictorial details include depictions of the Franklin medals grouped in a series of five and of three interspersed among strands of flowers, and two larger depictions of the recto and obverse of one of the medals won by the firm. One side shows an allegorical scene with the female figure "Britannia" laying a wreath on the head of "Industry" and reads "Dissociata Locis Concordi Pace II Gavit. H.P. & W.C. Taylor Class XXIX." Other side shows the head of a mustached man and that of a classical female figure and reads Victoria D.G. Brit Reg. F.D. Albertus Princeps Conjux MDCCCII."
Is referenced by Wainwright 165
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 338
LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #71.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject H.P. & W.C. Taylor.
Perfumes industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Medals.
Geographic subject Ninth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 641-643.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W165 [P.2074]
Accession number P.2074