Details
Creator Wagner & M'Guigan.
Contributor Croome, William, 1790-1860, artist.
Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist.
Title Wagner & McGuigan's lithographic & steam power printing establishment Athenian Building, Franklin Place. [graphic] / [Croome, del; Traubel, sc.]
Publisher [Philadelphia: Wagner & M'Guigan's lith]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date [1856]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 26 x 20 cm.(10 x 7.5 in.)
Description Directory advertisement containing an allegorical, patriotic scene. Shows the figure of Columbia, attired in a toga, American flag, and laurel wreath, with a broken shackle under her foot as she stands on a pedestal. She holds a sword in one hand beside an American eagle perched on a shield and a laurel wreath in the other in front of a sculpted bust of George Washington. The bust rests on a pedestal adorned with a fasces. A paint palette and brushes, compass, rolls of paper, and a banner reading "Encourage American Arts" rests at the feet of Columbia. Floral details frame the sides of the image. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858.
Notes Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), frontispiece.
Not in Wainwright.
Names of artists from variant duplicate in Poulson's scrapbooks, Illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. 1.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 114
Subject Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Statues.
Wagner & M'Guigan.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Columbia (Symbolic character)
Eagles
Art.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Dir Phila 1856 (58) 10840.O.frontispiece
Accession number (58) 10840.O.frontispiece