Details
Creator Duval & Hunter.
Title Alois Senefelder. Inventor of lithography [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1871
Date [1871]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 27 x 18 cm.(10.75 x 7.25 in.)
Description Book illustration containing a portrait of Senefelder in a slightly draped oval frame bordered by scenes, pictorial details and vignettes representative of the lithographic trade. Frame contains a plate marked "1800" to represent the year of the invention of lithography. Pictorial details of lithographer's tools including a pen, ink pot, etching needle, straight edge, compass, sponge, brush, palette, and ink roller flank the upper edges of the frame. Scenes of a lithographic printer rolling ink on a stone on a hand press (left) and a lithographic artist using a hand rest to draw a portrait on stone from a sketch at his drawing table (right) adorn the lower edges. Scenes also include stones stored in a library of shelves and resting against the hand press as well as the artist's portfolio laying against his drawing table. Vignette shows a steam powered lithographic press framed as the base of the pedestal of the portrait. Duval & Hunter, the partnership between P.S. Duval's son Stephen C. Duval and Thomas Hunter operated 1869-1874.
Notes Published in J. Luther Ringwalt's The American encyclopaedia of printing (Philadelphia: Meniman & Ringwalt, 1871), opp. p. 280.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 8
Subject Senefelder, Alois, 1771-1834 -- Portraits.
Duval & Hunter.
Lithographers
Printers.
Printing industry.
Printmaking equipment.
Genre Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Book illustrations -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| *Am 1871 Rin 3210.Q.280a (Sower)
Accession number 3210.Q.280a (Sower)
3210.Q.280a (Sower) doublepage