Details
Creator Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist.
Contributor Herline & Co., printer.
Title Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society [certificate] [graphic] / Max Rosenthal del. & lith.
Publisher Philadelphia : Herline & Co. N.E. cor. 10th and Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1871
Date [ca. 1871]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted and hand-colored ; 40 x 50 cm. (16 x 20 in.)
Description Diploma depicting six vignettes and graphic elements symbolizing agriculture and horticulture separated into distinct scenes by borders designed as trees and foliage. At the top, a winged, female allegorical figure, attired in a robe and laurel wreath, sits with her arms outstretched over a shield surmounted by an eagle. She holds a bugle in her left hand and a laurel wreath in her right, and she reaches in the direction of two horses that flank the shield. Images of a railroad locomotive crossing a stone arch bridge (left) and a waterfront industrial complex (right) flank the winged figure. On the sides, scenes depict cattle and sheep grazing, men harvesting a field with a horse-drawn reaper, and a man feeding horses near a large bale of hay. At the bottom, tools and agricultural products surround the society's blind stamp, and include farm produce, scythes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual exhibition of the society was held the same year.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Awarded to S.M. Mertzler for display of wines etc. at the exhibition of said society held at Lancaster in 1875, signed D.W. Seiler, secretary, and George Scott, president.
Society's blind stamp on recto.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 166
Gift of David Doret.
Biographical / historical note Edward Herline and Howard B. Hamilton, the proprietors of Herline & Co., moved their lithographic operations from 630 Chestnut Street to 39 South Tenth Street in 1871.
Subject Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society.
Farmers' groups -- Pennsylvania.
Agriculture.
Agricultural machinery & implements.
Livestock.
Farming.
Farm produce.
Railroads.
Factories.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- Hand-colored -- 1870-1880.
Certificates -- 1870-1880.
Diplomas -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Philadelphia certificates - Agriculture [P.2003.37.1]
Accession number P.2003.37.1