W.H. Rease. Lithographic artist. No. 17 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia [graphic] : Drawings & designs of every description, executed in the best style and on the most reasonable terms. Foundries, factories, stores, machinery, portraits, views, anatomical drawings &c &c.
Rease, W. H.
Rease, W.H.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Portraits.
Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Portraits
Columbia (Symbolic character)
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Print containing two variant specimens of advertisements for the prolific Philadelphia lithographer of mid-19th century advertising prints. Top specimen contains a central vignette and three border vignettes adorned with ornamental details. Central vignette shows a semi-bare breasted Columbia with the shield of the United States and the American eagle. Border vignettes show classical-style portraits of a woman and girl, and an artist at an easel, and a lithographer drawing on stone. Lower specimen contains a central vignette and two border vignettes adorned with ornamental details. Central vignette shows a man sketching next to a tree at the bank of a river. Border vignettes show bust portraits of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. Each specimen contains different style lettering.
Price calculations, including figures for mounting, binding edges,and printing inscribed on verso.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 109
Smithsonian Institution: Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Lithography - Vertical File 2 - Rease
Rease operated a lithographic establishment from 17 South Fifth Street 1844-1854.
[Philadelphia : W.H. Rease]
[ca. 1850]
Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
2 prints (1 sheet): lithograph.
digitool:68226
Smithsonian Institution Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Lithography - Vertical File 2 - Rease
Referenced by Not in Wainwright.