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Thomas Hunter, successor. Duval & Hunter's catalogue of oleograph publications for the season 1873-4. [graphic].
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Creator
Duval & Hunter.
Title
Thomas Hunter, successor. Duval & Hunter's catalogue of oleograph publications for the season 1873-4. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia: Duval & Hunter]
Date
[1873]
Physical Description
1 trade catalog (10 leaves, 2 plates): lithograph and letterpress; 18 x 13 cm. (7 x 5 in.)
Description
Trade catalog containing an ornate front and back cover and two specimen pages of script promoting Thomas Hunter, former partner in Hunter & Duval (active 1869-1874). Front cover contains central vignette showing a woman with two cherubic figures seated on filigree. The woman writes on a lithographic stone and the figures hold a banner reading "Duval & Hunter" and a printing ink roller. Rear cover contains a wreath of medals awarded to predecessor firms P. S. Duval and Duval & Hunter. Medals, many from the Franklin Institute, enclose text reading "Duval and Hunter's Steam Lithographic Establishment. 19 First Premiums in Diplomas and Medals. 1841-1872" and contain inscriptions, dates, allegorical figures, seals, and busts of Benjamin Franklin and King Albert. Several of the medals reference color lithography and chromolithography.
Also includes two specimen pages of script for "Duval & Hunter, Designer, Lithographers, and Chromo Publishers, Nos. 716-722 Filbert St. Philadelphia" that promote the services and prints supplied by the establishment, including "a liberal discount to the trade," "check books," "labels of all kinds," and "Portraits and Lithography in all its Branches." Catalog also contains preface "To the Trade" and title list with prices.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Title annotated with stamp Thomas Hunter, Successor.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 102
Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01
Subject
Hunter, Thomas.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lithography.
Farming.
Medals
Genre
Trade catalogs -- 1870-1880.
Covers (Illustration) -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Specimens -- 1870-1880.
Location
Smithsonian Institution| NMAH Graphic Arts| SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-Cover
Smithsonian Institution| NMAH Graphic Arts| SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-ToTheTrade
Smithsonian Institution| NMAH Graphic Arts| SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-Insurance
Smithsonian Institution| NMAH Graphic Arts| SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-Back
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