Details
Creator P.S. Duval & Son.
Title P.S. Duval & Son lithographers. S.W. corner 5th and Minor street. Philadelphia. [graphic] : Lithography in all its various branches, transfer from copper or steel plates executed in the most perfect style.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1857
Date [1857]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with two stones; 23 x 14 cm.(9 x 5.5 in.)
Description Directory advertisement containing a montage of pictorial elements including a landscape view, and depictions of a Gothic-style church tower and bas-relief bust profile of Alois Senenfeder, the inventor of lithography. Landscape view includes a cow, horse, and sheep. Other details depict two cherubs reading a ledger near tools of the lithographic trade including a roller, paper, rag, scraper, and press. Floral and vinery ornamentations bordering a banner adorned with the firm's name and the bas-relief portrait also comprise the image. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Son or P.S Duval, Son & Co. circa 1857-circa 1879 and from 22 & 24 South 5th Street 1858-1869.
Notes Published in The Philadelphia complete business directory for 1857... (Philadelphia: Published by Wm. F. Bartlett & Co., [1857]), opp. p. 113.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 74
Subject Senefelder, Alois, 1771-1834 -- Portraits.
P.S. Duval & Son.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Angels.
Angels.
Church architecture.
Livestock.
Printmaking equipment.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Dir Phila 1857 76553.0.112a
Accession number 76553.0.112a