Details
Creator P.S. Duval & Son.
Title P.S. Duval & Son. [graphic] : Lithography in all its various branches, transfer from copper or steel plates and autographic circulars. Nota: There is also a photographic department attached to this establishment. S.w. corner 5th and Minor streets, near Chestnut St. Philadelphia.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1857
Date [1858]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 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 "A[lois] Senefelder, Inventor of Lithography." Landscape view includes a cow, horse, and several sheep. Other details depict two cherubs reading a ledger, next to a compass and another ledger, and near a lithographer rolling ink on a stone on a lithographic printing 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 McElroy's Philadelphia city directory, for 1858... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1858), frontispiece.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 70
Subject Senefelder, Alois, 1771-1834 -- Portraits.
P.S. Duval & Son.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Angels.
Church architecture.
Livestock.
Printing presses.
Genre Chromolithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Dir Phila 1858 (63) 10840.O.frontispiece
Accession number (63) 10840.O.frontispiece