Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
Title Souvenir of the coldest winter on record. Scene on the Delaware River at Philada. during the severe winter of 1856. [graphic] / From nature and on stone by J. Queen.
Publisher Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Co's steam lith. press
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date 1856
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 25 x 33 cm. (10 x 13.25 in.)
Description Frolicking genre scene showing hundreds of persons skating and sledding on the frozen river in front of the old Navy Yard at Southwark. Skaters and sledders include men pushing women in chairs with blades, men pushing a sleigh of women passengers, a man pulling a boy on a sled, and a man being pulled by a dog running through a crowd of skaters. In the foreground, a couple stands and watches the activity; a woman peddler, seated on a stool, sells an apple to a boy; and a man has fallen on the ice, near a boy leaning on another boy. In the background, a sleigh ride has been fabricated with several men pushing a large pivoted pole lever to propel a toboggan of women passengers in a circle on an area free from congestion. Watch houses stand near by, with throngs of people surrounding the sheds. Moored ships, steamboats, and sailing vessels line the shore. Also shows distant cityscape.
Is referenced by Wainwright 342
Notes Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 704
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb72 Q3
Subject Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Winter. -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ice skating -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Sleds & sleighs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Peddlers & peddling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Southwark (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Genre prints -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W342 [P.2190]
Accession number P.2190