Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Title F. Moras’ Lithographic Establishment, Philadelphia. 610 Jayne Street. [graphic] / James F. Queen.
Publisher [Philadelphia : F. Moras]
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 10 x 14 cm. (4 x 5.5 in.)
Description Trade card for Moras, a German-born lithographer who established his own firm in 1853 from which he retired in 1890. The firm continued to operate until the late 1890s. Contains two vignettes separated and bordered by Gothic details, vinery, and scrolls. Vignettes show a lithographer and a lithograph printing room. Lithographic artist uses a hand rest and draws on stone from a sketch displayed on his sketch table. Printing room scene shows printers at work, including rolling ink on stones on hand-presses, checking proof prints, and moving stones. Also shows lithographic stones resting against a support column and the rooms adorned with wall lamps.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 29
Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen Prints - 23 (AA size) F. Moras
Subject Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908, artist.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Location Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen Prints - 23 (AA size) F. Moras