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- Title
- Harrison's Columbian hair dye Manufactured by Apollos W. Harrison, 8 1/2 South 7th St
- Description
- Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer containing an ornate frame comprised of vignettes, pictorial details, and ornaments surrounding ornamented text. Vignettes depict patriotic symbols of the American eagle and U.S. shield and two scenes. Scene in the left shows a gentleman being attended to by his valet. The gentleman has wavy, ear-length, dark hair and wears a blue and red patterned dressing gown. The valet, in a grey suit, looks at a bottle in his gentleman's left hand. The gentleman scratches his head with his right hand. Scene in the right shows a woman, looking down, pulling her fingers through her long dark hair that rests over her shoulders past her waist. She wears a peasant-like dress with a red bodice and green-striped skirt with a paisley pattern. The border also contains scroll-like pictorial details, geometric shaped ornaments, and pattern backgrounds. A thick, blue block of color frames the border like an outline. Harrison, originally a book, map, and ink dealer, began operating his perfumery, including hair dyes, circa 1853. By the late 1850s, Harrison employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Artist's imprint in lower right and left of stone., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 291
- Creator
- Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1853]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - H [P.2015.71.2]
- Title
- Harrison's Columbian hair dye Manufactured by Apollos W. Harrison, 8 1/2 South 7th St
- Description
- Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer containing an ornate frame comprised of vignettes, pictorial details, and ornaments surrounding ornamented text. Vignettes depict patriotic symbols of the American eagle and U.S. shield and two scenes. Scene in the left shows a gentleman being attended to by his valet. The gentleman has wavy, ear-length, dark hair and wears a blue and red patterned dressing gown. The valet, in a grey suit, looks at a bottle in his gentleman's left hand. The gentleman scratches his head with his right hand. Scene in the right shows a woman, looking down, pulling her fingers through her long dark hair that rests over her shoulders past her waist. She wears a peasant-like dress with a red bodice and green-striped skirt with a paisley pattern. The border also contains scroll-like pictorial details, geometric shaped ornaments, and pattern backgrounds. The background is printed in red and is framed by a blue border. Harrison, originally a book, map, and ink dealer, began operating his perfumery, including hair dyes, circa 1853. By the late 1850s, Harrison employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Title from item., Date and publication information supplied Library Company duplicate with variant colors., Not in Wainwright., See related: *BW - Advertisements - H [P.2015.71.2]., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 291a
- Creator
- Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1853]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.45]
- Title
- The British surrendering their arms to Gen. Washington after their defeat at York Town in Virginia October 1781 To the defenders of American independence, this print is most respectfully inscribed by their fellow citizen, J[oh]n. F[ran]cis. Renault, Assistant Secretary to the Count de Grass, and Engineer to the French Army at the Siege of York
- Description
- Reproduction of commemorative print purchased by subscription after the painting exhibited in America by French-born painter, John Francis Renault. Depicts an historically inaccurate, allegorical scene of the decisive surrender at the close of the American Revolution. Shows Lord Cornwallis offering his sword to the Duke de Lauzun who defers the weapon to General Washington. Image includes: the American, French, and British military officers convening on a knoll near a neoclassical two-column monument with an inscribed urn guarded by female muses and a child holding the U.S. Constitution; Washington's African American valet and horse; and an allegorical scene of a goddess, portrayed as a white woman, firing lightning bolts upon an overturned Roman chariot. Identified officers depicted are: Lauzun, General Knox, General Nelson, General Lafayette, Washington, Major General Lincoln, Count Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau, Colonel Hamilton, Cornwallis, Lt. Colonel Abercrombie, Naval Captain Symmonds, Lt. Colonel Dundas, and Lord Chewton., Title from item., Copyrighted by the National Bureau of Engraving and Manufacturing Co., Printed on recto: Entered according to Act of Congress the 28th day of January, 1818., Original print advertised with an accompanying "Plan" in the February 10, 1824 edition of "The New England Palladium & Commercial Advertiser.", National Bureau of Engraving and Manufacturing operated from 1877 until the early 1900s under variant names., LCP holds original edition of accompanying plan. See "Plan of Yorktown and Virginia and Adjacent Country..." (Philadelphia, 1824), drawn by Renault and engraved by Benjamin Tanner. (LCP 308 M 23)., See Library of Congress' An Album of American battle art, 1755-1918. (Washington, D.C.: The U.S Government Printing Office, 1947), #29. (LCP Print Room Uy 14, 8413.Q)., Accessioned 2000., Description of revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Tanner, Vallance, Kearny, & Co. was a short-lived partnership between Philadelphia engravers Benjamin Tanner, John Vallance, and Francis Kearny from 1818-1819. William Allen worked as an engraver in Philadelphia in 1818.
- Date
- [ca. 1895], January 28, 1818
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - American Revolution [P.9845]