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Title: Protest against the British government; [Portrait of a young woman]
Description: Political print designed by Joseph H. Brightly protesting the British government's policies toward Ireland containing a half-length portrait in left profile of Robert Emmett above text protesting for the equal rights of the Irish. Portrait surrounded by border captioned "Martyred Emmett. 'Let no man write my epitaph till Ireland is free.'" Text surrounded by a border shaped as a lyre and adorned with a heart marked "Liberty," vines of clover, and two bare-breasted angels holding scrolls. Scrolls inscribed with the names of eighteen Irish nationalists including John Mitchel; T.F. (Thomas Francis) Meagher; P. O'Donohue; and Rich. O'Gorman. Text references the infringement of franchise, a free press, and the separation of church and state; the American Revolution; the epitaph of Emmett; and the 'High court of Heaven.", Portrait showing a young woman holding a bouquet of roses. Roses adorn her hair., Two-sided lithograph containing a political print on recto and portrait on verso., One title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., First line of text: Time is the arbiter of all things; slow in its progress, but wonderful in its results., Gift of Davd Doret.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *political cartoons - [1858] Pro [P.2005.36.19a&b]

Title: A. Fiot publisher of music, importer of musical merchandize [sic]. Wholesale & retail, No. 196 Chestnut Street Philadelphia Piano, harps, guitars, violins, flutes, brass instruments, Italian strings. &c. &c
Description: Advertisement containing a whimsical view surrounded by an ornamental border to promote the music store of Augustus Fiot. View shows cherubs playing and surrounded by instruments, including a cello, harp, trumpet, flute, guitar, and organ. Scene also includes sheet music resting on the floor and propped on a stand. The ornamental border includes a vignette, cherubs playing instruments (harp, cymbals, trumpet, flute), vinery, and floral details. Vignette shows a woman at a piano and a boy playing the flute at a recital in front of a small audience. Fiot began to publish music in 1835 with partner Leopold Meignan. The partnership operated until 1839. Fiot continued to operate a music store until 1855., Title from item., Date inferred from the content., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 1, Copy printed in red ink at Free Library of Philadelphia: Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 60, Digital image of Free Library of Philadelphia copy included in Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog.
Creator: Dacre, Henry, approximately 1820-
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.23]

Title: FacSimile of the revolutionary flag, A.D. 1774
Description: Depiction of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry’s flag from 1774. Shows the flag with fringed edges on a spiked flagpole adorned with two tassels and held open by a rope from its upper right corner tied to a tree in the right. In the top left of the flag are thirteen stripes representing the colonies. In the center, flanking a shield illustrated with thirteen ropes tied into a Gordian Knot are allegorical figures representing Liberty and Fame. Liberty, depicted as a barefooted Native American figure attired in a headdress, feather skirt, and with a quiver of arrows on their back, carries a bow and a liberty cap on a pole. Fame, depicted as a winged angel, blows a trumpet. Above the shield is a horse’s head wearing a bridle with the letters “LHC,” which stands for light horse cavalry. A banner below the shield reads, “For these we strive.”, Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1839, by Wm. M. Huddy, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna., Printed on recto: Plate No. 4., Gift of David Doret., RVCDC
Date: 1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.33]

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