The Ledger carrier's annual greeting. To their subscribers, New Year, 1855.
Title
The Ledger carrier's annual greeting. To their subscribers, New Year, 1855
Description
Allegorical print depicting female allegorical figures in front of a temple of Justice. Depicts in the left, Peace as a white woman attired in a laurel wreath crown and a white Roman gown, standing across from the white figure of Liberty and pointing with her left hand toward the temple in the background. Liberty, wearing the American flag as a cape, and with a liberty pole and cap in hand, charges toward the temple. Three muse-like female followers, including two white women, one holding an urn, and a Black woman, looking toward the temple, stand alongside her. Behind Peace, a white cherub stands by a stack of books. Scene also includes a discarded shield and sword laying on the ground in the foreground., Title from item., Presumably issued late in 1854 by Swain, Abell & Simons, the publisher of the Philadelphia newspaper, the Public Ledger, for their subscribers., Printed below the image: Printing! the art of every art preserver. The lever that uplifts the world of mind. Of Justice, Peace, and Human Rights conserver; The sense of vision to the mental blind. The torch of genius flashes o’er its pages, Illumes Fame’s temple with its dazzling ray. And marks the means for moulding future ages, In universal education’s sway., Purchase 1984., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Sartain, a premier Philadelphia portrait and genre engraver of the 19th century, was also a social reformer who often incorporated his reformist beliefs into his work., Schussele was a historical, genre, landscape, and portrait painter and respected professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts whose paintings his professional associate and friend, John Sartain, often engraved.
Creator
Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date
[1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Allegories - L [P.9000.1]
In commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of American independence
Title
In commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of American independence
Description
Elaborate Centennial Exhibition commemorative print depicting an arched monument containing a central full-length portrait of George Washington surrounded by vignettes; allegorical figures; and religious quotes by the first president. Washington is depicted mounted on his horse. Arch is adorned with the names of the 38 states and is flanked by columns containing views representing the industries of the North, East, South, and West. Views show a white man laborer of the North chopping a tree at a waterfront, white women loom workers of the East, an overseer on horseback watching an enslaved African American man picking cotton in the South, and a white man farmer reaping his harvest with a horse-drawn plow in the West. Columns also contain allegorical figures to represent the years 1776 and 1876. Justice and Independence (depicted as white women and holding the Declaration), and a prostrate British soldier represent the year 1776 and Peace and Liberty (depicted as white woman and holding a "Ballot"), and a seated enslaved African American man free from his shackles represent the year 1876. Monument also contains views of Independence Hall and Memorial Hall (Centennial Exhibition), the scene showing the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and allegorical figures and emblems symbolizing the classical and industrial arts. Other pictorial elements depict the all-seeing eye; American eagle, shield, and flag; vignettes showing Washington praying, and accepting the sword of surrender from Lord Cornwallis during the American Revolution; and vignette views with dimensions of Centennial Exhibition buildings. Buildings include the Art Gallery, Main Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, and Horticultural Hall. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Improvement copyrighted 1877 The Presbyterian Philadelphia, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 370, Gift of David Doret, 2007., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date
1876, 1877
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.2007.28.7]