Drawing depicting the traffic traveling down a road in Morocco to Casablanca. In the left, an open-top automobile with a driver and a passenger in the backseat drives towards the viewer. In the right, several Moroccan men travel on donkeys with more donkeys carrying cargo. Mountains are visible in the distance., Title and date from item., Signed by artist in lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
Jan. 18, 1944
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.12]
Drawing depicting two men bargaining in ancient Babylon. In the left, shows the man wearing long hair and a beard and attired in a cap and robe, standing with his right hand up negiotating. In the right, the man, wearing a beard and attired in a headdress and robe, leans foward with his right hand towards the man. He rests his left hand on a woman kneeling with a young child. In the background, a man stands with three camels in front of buildings., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1920]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.1]
Block-printed wallpaper depicting an exterior view of Machinery Hall designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Horse-drawn carriages bring visitors to and from the Hall. A large crowd of spectators walk on the grounds. In the foreground, people from various nationalities and ethnicities are represented including Native Americans attired in feather headdresses; two men, including a Black man, attired in fez hats; two Chinese men, one carrying a fan, attired in conical hats and robes; two Arab men in white headdresses and robes; and a Scottish man attired in a kilt. Other spectators include a man attired in a sailor’s uniform, men and women couples, and young boys., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret., RVCDC
Date
[ca. 1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.49]
