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Title: Alois Senefelder. Inventor of lithography
Description: Book illustration containing a portrait of Senefelder in a slightly draped oval frame bordered by scenes, pictorial details and vignettes representative of the lithographic trade. Frame contains a plate marked "1800" to represent the year of the invention of lithography. Pictorial details of lithographer's tools including a pen, ink pot, etching needle, straight edge, compass, sponge, brush, palette, and ink roller flank the upper edges of the frame. Scenes of a lithographic printer rolling ink on a stone on a hand press (left) and a lithographic artist using a hand rest to draw a portrait on stone from a sketch at his drawing table (right) adorn the lower edges. Scenes also include stones stored in a library of shelves and resting against the hand press as well as the artist's portfolio laying against his drawing table. Vignette shows a steam powered lithographic press framed as the base of the pedestal of the portrait. Duval & Hunter, the partnership between P.S. Duval's son Stephen C. Duval and Thomas Hunter operated 1869-1874., Published in J. Luther Ringwalt's The American encyclopaedia of printing (Philadelphia: Meniman & Ringwalt, 1871), opp. p. 280., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 8
Creator: Duval & Hunter
Date: [1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1871 Rin 3210.Q.280a (Sower)

Title: P.S. Duval & Son Lithography in all its various branches, transfer from copper or steel plates and autographic circulars. Nota: There is also a photographic department attached to this establishment. S.w. corner 5th and Minor streets, near Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Directory advertisement containing a montage of pictorial elements including a landscape view, and depictions of a Gothic-style church tower and bas-relief bust profile of "A[lois] Senefelder, Inventor of Lithography." Landscape view includes a cow, horse, and several sheep. Other details depict two cherubs reading a ledger, next to a compass and another ledger, and near a lithographer rolling ink on a stone on a lithographic printing press. Floral and vinery ornamentations bordering a banner adorned with the firm's name and the bas-relief portrait also comprise the image.The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Son or P.S Duval, Son & Co. circa 1857-circa 1879 and from 22 & 24 South 5th Street 1858-1869., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia city directory, for 1858... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1858), frontispiece., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 70
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1858 (63) 10840.O.frontispiece

Title: P.S. Duval & Son lithographers. S.W. corner 5th and Minor street. Philadelphia Lithography in all its various branches, transfer from copper or steel plates executed in the most perfect style
Description: Directory advertisement containing a montage of pictorial elements including a landscape view, and depictions of a Gothic-style church tower and bas-relief bust profile of Alois Senenfeder, the inventor of lithography. Landscape view includes a cow, horse, and sheep. Other details depict two cherubs reading a ledger near tools of the lithographic trade including a roller, paper, rag, scraper, and press. Floral and vinery ornamentations bordering a banner adorned with the firm's name and the bas-relief portrait also comprise the image. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Son or P.S Duval, Son & Co. circa 1857-circa 1879 and from 22 & 24 South 5th Street 1858-1869., Published in The Philadelphia complete business directory for 1857... (Philadelphia: Published by Wm. F. Bartlett & Co., [1857]), opp. p. 113., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 74
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1857 76553.0.112a

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