Breuker & Kessler lithographers, engravers & printers. S. W. corner 7th & Chestnut sts. Philadelphia. Particular attention paid to all kinds of commercial engraving
Breuker & Kessler Co.
still image
Graphic
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870
Advertisements -- Tinted -- 1860-1870
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
[1867]
1867
monographic
eng
1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 22 x 14 cm.(8.5 x 5.5 in.)
Book advertisement containing landscape views, allegorical figures, and artist and printer's tools. Shows the allegorical figure Art as she leans on a pedestal that is covered in vines and displays a vase of flowers. She stands on a moss covered rock marked "Labels" that is surrounded by a stone tablet, possibly a lithographer's stone, inscribed "Manufacturers of Transferable Pictures"; a press machine; and a paint palette resting on a book. In the background, trees, hills, and a bridge spanning a river near townscape are visible. Breuker & Kessler, a partnership between George W. Breuker & Harry C. Kessler, operated circa 1867-1880.
Not in Wainwright.
Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a hand-Book of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia, in 1867(Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867), opp. p. 134.
Breucker & Kessler Co.
Lithographers
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Art
Printmaking equipment
Bridges
55213.O.134a
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