Details
Creator Wagner & M'Guigan.
Title Wagner & McGuigan's steam lithographic printing establishment no. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 26 x 20 (10 x 7.75 in.)
Description Advertisement showing a montage of vignettes related to lithography to promote partners Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan, who jointly operated a lithographic studio jointly 1846-1858. Vignettes show the exterior of the printing establishment; lithographic artists working on stones propped flat and on an angle; pressmen operating two different types of lithographic presses (one modified with a cylinder that served as a paper feeding device); and the large steam engine that powered the presses. Also shows symbols of patriotism and the trade propped against the base of the steam engine. Includes lithographic stones, an ink roller, a brush, a large stoppered bottle probably representing gum arabic, and American flag and shield.
Is referenced by Wainwright 440
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 115.1
Library of Congress: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:105 Wagner & McGuigan
Reproduced and described in Jennifer Ambrose's "Nineteenth Century Advertising Prints," Magazine Antiques (August 2006), pp. 96 & 98.
LOC also holds variant state, tinted with one stone under same call number. Variant includes text in tint color: Drawings of Every Description Executed on Stone. Also, Maps, Plans, Certificates, Circulars, &c. Transferring from Steel, Copper & Stone. (POSA 115.2)
Subject Wagner & M'Guigan.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printing presses.
Printing equipment
Patriotism.
Geographic subject Franklin Place (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 4.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:105 Wagner & McGuigan