Details
Contributor Biegeman, Adolph, colorist.
P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
Title Shankland's American Fashions for the Spring & Summer of 1853, 100 Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia. [graphic] /. A. Biegemann, colorist.
Publisher Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Co.'s steam lith. press
Date c1853
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 59 x 76 cm. (23.5 x 29.5 in.)
Description Fashion advertisement containing two panels of 24 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor and outdoor setting. Upper panel shows the parlor scene. Three men in suits, two with top hats and one in a wide-brimmed hat converse near a framed painting. In the center, in front of a draped window, two young boys, one attired in a sack-style jacket, converse and stand near three men attired in suits, one with his back turned. Two of the men wear top hats. To the left, a heavy-set man in a top hat and suit converses with two other gentlemen, one leaning on a stand with a potted plant, in top hats and suits. Lower panel shows an outdoor setting at a lakeside with seven men, two boys, and a woman. Most of the men wear suits, including jackets with tails, top hats, and bow ties. One man wears a wide-brimmed hat. Another man wears a hunting outfit accessorized with a wide-brimmed hat, bag and rifle. The boys, wear suits, one also has a cap, and hold apples. The woman wears a two-piece riding outfit of a fitted jacket, full skirt, and wide-brimmed hat. Many of the men's pants contain patterns, with a number adorned with horizontal stripe designs below the knee and most wear facial hair of mustaches, and/or mutton chops. Other furnishings include carpeting. Figures numbered 1-11, upper panel and 12-24, lower panel.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Copyrighted by John R. Shankland.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 215
Library of Congress: PAGA 7, no. 1514e (E size) Fashions Spring Summer 1853
LOC copy uncolored.
Subject Shankland, John R.
Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Fashion prints -- 1850-1860.
Location Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC PAGA 7, no. 1514e (E size) Fashions Spring Summer 1853