Series containing a pencil study, engraving, and wood-engraved periodical illustration of the stocking store that was razed circa 1832. Images show a wood-frame house with a large front window, outside cellar door, two stacked small side windows, and gambrel roof with chimney. The building is adorned with signage reading "Stockings. C & N. Jones." All of the graphics contain shading around the foot of the building. Ann Jones purportedly operated a stocking store from the same location during the 1750s., Attributed to James Queen by Marion Carson., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript notes below image of P.2017.8.29: N.W. Corner of 2nd & Chestnut; Original of plates; M3727., P.2017.8.30 titled: N.W. Cor. 2nd & Chestnut St., P.2017.8.31 is clipping with letter-press text on verso., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., LCP duplicate copy of engraving [(1) 1525.F.17g] does not include manuscript note attributing print to Queen as noted by Snyder., See LCP Poulson's Scrapbooks vol. 5, p. 28 and p. 31 and vol. 7, p.21.
Date
[ca. 1832-ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - A-Z -Jones [P.2017.8.30-32]
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Label on the verso from Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, N.J.) (Double Head Study), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ethan D. Alyea. 1964.51., Bust-length, forward-facing portrait study of two white women. In the left, shows an older woman with brown ringlet curls framing her forehead and attired in a white lace day cap tied in a bow under her chin and a dark-colored dress with a white lace collar. In the right, shows a young woman with her dark brown hair parted in the middle and tied back and attired in dress with a white neckline. There is an additional portrait of a woman on the verso of the canvas. A cut out in the frame reveals the eyes of the portrait. A photocopy reproduction is taped to the back. Bust-length portrait of a white woman with her blonde hair tied back and attired in drop earrings, a multi-stranded necklace, and a light blue dress.
