Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
Title Shad fishing (taking up the net.) [graphic] : On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance. / From nature and on stone by James Queen.
Publisher Philadelphia : P.S. Duval & Co. steam lith press
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [1855]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone of different colors ; sheet 28 x 34 cm (11 x 13.25 in.)
Description View of several fishermen, including African American men, most waist deep in the river and all but one in a semi-circle, gathering up their catch into a rowboat. A Philadelphia pier lined with residences, the mills of Gloucester, New Jersey, and sailboats on the river are visible in the foreground and background.
Is referenced by Wainwright, 335
Notes Title from item.
Date from manuscript note written on recto: April-May 1855.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 691
Accessioned 1982.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note Queen was a premier Philadelphia genre, nature, and advertisement lithographer who with fellow lithographer P.S. Duval, was an early successful chromolithographer.
Subject African American fishers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fisherman -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fishing nets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mills -- New Jersey -- Gloucester.
Rowboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Shad fishing -- Pennsylvania.
Geographic subject Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W335 [P.2189]
Accession number P.2189