Details
Creator Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist.
Contributor Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title L.N. Rosenthal. Lithographic office, removed to N.W. cor. of Fifth & Chestnut Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] / Designed & drawn on stone by Max Rosenthal.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith. & printed in colors at the establishment [of L.N. Rosenthal]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date [October 1856]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; image 25 x 21 cm. (9.75 x 8 in.)
Description Advertisement. Contains large central area of text describing types of artistic, and job and color printing work undertaken by the firm including book illustration; scientific, mechanical and architectural drawings; views; landscapes; portraits; labels and forms. Surrounded by an elaborate border containing flowers, classical statuary, two muses, a bust, a medallion reading "Awarded for tthe Best Chromolithography," and a small landscape view. Name of the firm in ornamental lettering is cleverly intertwined among flowers at the top. Rosenthal moved from southeast corner of 3rd and Dock to a larger printing shop at northwest corner of 5th and Chestnut in 1856.
Notes Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Oct. 1856. Specimen of Lithography in colors.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 51
Accession number amended by cataloger.
Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Duplicate in Specimen's Album. [P.9349.39]
Subject Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.)
Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Advertisements [(5)2526.F.b]
Accession number (5)2526.F.b