| 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 |
