Book illustration containing a portrait of Senefelder in a slightly draped oval frame bordered by scenes, pictorial details and vignettes representative of the lithographic trade. Frame contains a plate marked "1800" to represent the year of the invention of lithography. Pictorial details of lithographer's tools including a pen, ink pot, etching needle, straight edge, compass, sponge, brush, palette, and ink roller flank the upper edges of the frame. Scenes of a lithographic printer rolling ink on a stone on a hand press (left) and a lithographic artist using a hand rest to draw a portrait on stone from a sketch at his drawing table (right) adorn the lower edges. Scenes also include stones stored in a library of shelves and resting against the hand press as well as the artist's portfolio laying against his drawing table. Vignette shows a steam powered lithographic press framed as the base of the pedestal of the portrait. Duval & Hunter, the partnership between P.S. Duval's son Stephen C. Duval and Thomas Hunter operated 1869-1874., Published in J. Luther Ringwalt's The American encyclopaedia of printing (Philadelphia: Meniman & Ringwalt, 1871), opp. p. 280., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 8
Creator
Duval & Hunter
Date
[1871]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1871 Rin 3210.Q.280a (Sower)
Book illustration, possibly from a business directory, showing the science and technology institute building built 1825-27 after the designs of John Haviland. A man stands on the steps leading to the entrance. The building served as the Franklin Institute from 1827 to 1933., Not in Wainwright., Contains advertisements for Philadelphia businesses Leibrandt & McDowell Stove Co. (123 N. 2nd), and Orr, Painter & Co. distributor of Reading Stove Works (64 & 66 N. 2nd) on verso. Orr advertisement includes a vignette depicting a stove., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 83, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 43 An 791
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 43 An 791
