LCP copy lacking title and attributions., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 M487.
Creator
Rease, W. H., creator
Date
[ca. 1847]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W150.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W150 [P.2060]
Advertisement with a central text area surmounted by a large eagle and surrounded by an elaborate ornamental border containing images of Chippendale-style furniture including chairs, desks, fire screens, stools, a table, a sofa, a bed and a tall case clock, and architectural fragments including the entrance gate to Randolph's "ware room," columns and cornices., Reproduced and described in Edwin Wolf, 2nd and Marie Elena Korey, eds. Quarter of a Millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981) entry #172., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #7., Reproduced and described in Fiske Kimball, "The Sources of the Philadelphia Chippendale II. Benjamin Randolph's Trade Card," Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Musuem 23 (October 1927), 4-8., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Smither, James, engraver
Date
[1769]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 11 x 14 - Advertisement - Randolph [13080.Q]
View looking south showing the 1200 block of Market Street Philadelphia in 1841. Shows, at the corner of the block, the one and one-half story building adorned with signs for the grocery store of H. & W. Patterson and the shop of Robert Ligget, cabinetmaker. Also shows adjacent buildings and pedestrian and street traffic, including a young boy playing with a hoop; horse-drawn carriages; and a man overseeing a team of six mules pulling a large, wooden freight car. Depicts adjacent buildings in the left and right., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator
McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date
[ca. 1935]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.62.12]
