Advertisement. Contains large central area of text describing types of artistic, and job and color printing work undertaken by the firm including book illustration; scientific, mechanical and architectural drawings; views; landscapes; portraits; labels and forms. Surrounded by an elaborate border containing flowers, classical statuary, two muses, a bust, a medallion reading "Awarded for tthe Best Chromolithography," and a small landscape view. Name of the firm in ornamental lettering is cleverly intertwined among flowers at the top. Rosenthal moved from southeast corner of 3rd and Dock to a larger printing shop at northwest corner of 5th and Chestnut in 1856., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Oct. 1856. Specimen of Lithography in colors., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 51, Accession number amended by cataloger., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Duplicate in Specimen's Album. [P.9349.39]
Creator
Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date
[October 1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [(5)2526.F.b]
