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Title: The Man of Letters.
Description: The man of letters has a rodent's face and tail. He wears knee-breeches, a coat, and cravat. He holds his top hat and a letter in his hands., Text: In a golden lace and fancy plush, / You look finer than your betters, / And take great airs upon yourself, / Since you've grown a man of letters., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Literary Woman.
Description: The literary woman sits at a table. She writes with a quill, and with her other hand she cradles her head, her elbow resting on a book. The trashcan is filled with yellow pieces of paper. "Blue stocking" is a term for women intellectuals that was often derogatory. The valentines criticizes women writers for lacking sufficient maternal desires and characterizes them as frightening and unattractive. Cf. Diogenes, hys lantern, v. 2 (1852), p. 128., Text: If there e'er was a woman that frightened me quite, / A Blue-stocking 'twould be, who had talent to write, / Who'd much rather spend her time writing a yarn, / Than teaching her children, their stockings to darn., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [ca. 1850?]

Title: P.S. Duval & Co.'s steam lithographic establishment, artizan's building Ranstead Place west from no 26 South Fourth Street Philadelphia Drawings of all kinds executed on stone. Copper and steel plates transferred. Printing, plain & coloured in the neatest style and the business in all its various branches carried on with punctuality and despatch. Nota: Engineers & surveyors wishing to execute their drawings, for transferring, merchants & others, writing their circulars or price currents, for the same purposes, will be supplied with the suitable ink & paper. Portraits, landscapes, geological and other maps, plans, architectural and historical drawings, ornamental title pages, colored illustrations, show cards, checks, circulars, price currents &c &c. Labels for patent medicines, perfumery, and all description of fancy articles, can be furnished at a very moderate cost to establishments requiring large quantities
Description: Directory advertisement showcasing the illuminated style of chromolithography executed by the Duval firm. Contains allegorical and historical vignettes and figures within a frame comprised of floral and Gothic elements. Includes the figure of Liberty attired in the American flag, holding a sword, and standing next to symbols of the arts such as a palette and sheet music below a framed bust-portrait of George Washington adorned with flowers and a banner reading "E. Pluribus Unum." Vignettes show lithographic artisans at work at a sketch table and rolling ink on a stone in a workshop, and a montage of medievally-attired artists and intellectuals, including a cartographer, sculptor, painter, mathematician, and composer. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Co. 1853-1857 and from Ranstead Place 1853-1856., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1854... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1854), opp. p. 12a., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 69, Also published in Catalogue of the twenty-second exhibition of American manufactures... (Philadelphia, 1852), frontispiece.
Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1854 10840.O.12a

Title: P.S. Duval & Co.'s steam lithographic establishment, artizan's building Ranstead Place west from no 26 South Fourth Street Philadelphia Drawings of all kinds executed on stone. Copper and steel plates transferred. Printing, plain & coloured in the neatest style and the business in all its various branches carried on with punctuality and despatch. Nota: Engineers & surveyors wishing to execute their drawings, for transferring, merchants & others, writing their circulars or price currents, for the same purposes, will be supplied with the suitable ink & paper. Portraits, landscapes, geological and other maps, plans, architectural and historical drawings, ornamental title pages, colored illustrations, show cards, checks, circulars, price currents &c &c. Labels for patent medicines, perfumery, and all description of fancy articles, can be furnished at a very moderate cost to establishments requiring large quantities
Description: Directory advertisement showcasing the illuminated style of chromolithography executed by the Duval firm. Contains allegorical and historical vignettes and figures within a frame comprised of floral and Gothic elements. Includes the figure of Liberty attired in the American flag, holding a sword, and standing next to symbols of the arts such as a palette and sheet music below a framed bust-portrait of George Washington. The portrait is adorned with flowers and a banner reading "E. Pluribus Unum." Vignettes show lithographic artisans at work at a sketch table and rolling ink on a stone in a workshop, and a montage of medievally-attired artists and intellectuals, including a cartographer, sculptor, painter, mathematician, and composer. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Co. 1853-1857 and from Ranstead Place 1853-1856., Published in Catalogue of the twenty-second exhibition of American manufactures... (Philadelphia, 1852), frontispiece., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 68, Also published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1854... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1854), opp. p. 12a.
Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date: [1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Exhib of 50574.O.15

Title: The Literary Man.
Description: The literary man sits at a table. His nose is dark (from drinking?) and he cradles his head with a hand holding a quill. In one corner of the table is a spike with papers through it (i.e., bills?) and on the other corner is a book titled Webster (i.e., Webster's Dictionary?). His trashcan is full, and the valentine suggests that it is difficult for him to write and what he does write is of low quality., Text: With slipshod feet, and coat with elbows out, / You daily sit, and with your scribbling quill, / Indite strange tales and trashy stuff, with which / Poor idle maids their simple minds may fill., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

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