Details
Creator Breuker & Kessler Co.
Title Breuker & Kessler lithographers, engravers & printers. S. W. corner 7th & Chestnut sts. Philadelphia. Particular attention paid to all kinds of commercial engraving. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1867
Date [1867]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 22 x 14 cm.(8.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Book advertisement containing landscape views, allegorical figures, and artist and printer's tools. Shows the allegorical figure Art as she leans on a pedestal that is covered in vines and displays a vase of flowers. She stands on a moss covered rock marked "Labels" that is surrounded by a stone tablet, possibly a lithographer's stone, inscribed "Manufacturers of Transferable Pictures"; a press machine; and a paint palette resting on a book. In the background, trees, hills, and a bridge spanning a river near townscape are visible. Breuker & Kessler, a partnership between George W. Breuker & Harry C. Kessler, operated circa 1867-1880.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a hand-Book of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia, in 1867(Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867), opp. p. 134.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 7
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 39 B 750
Subject Breucker & Kessler Co.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Art.
Printmaking equipment.
Bridges.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Advertisements -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Am 1867 Free 55213.O.134a
Accession number 55213.O.134a