Trade card for the grocer and tea dealer illustrated with a scene showing an upper-class Chinese couple being served tea by a servant. The man and woman each hold a fan. Pagaodas, a bridge, and landscape are visible in the background., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
c1867
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.176c]
Poster containing seated figures incorporated into the lettering to promote the exhibition of the professional artists' club founded in 1860. Figures include a female muse working with a sketch, and cherubic boys sculpting a bust and painting from a palette. Letters designed as trees, vinery, and a fish tail., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 80, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871., Cresson, an illustrator, was an early member and served as secretary of the club 1863-1864.
Creator
Cresson, William Emlen, 1843-1868, artist
Date
[1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.75b]
Poster containing Gothic-style lettering bordering a central vignette. Vignette depicts an oval-framed mid-length portrait of a lady in medieval attire holding a pencil and sketchpad. The lady's hand with pencil ascends outside of the frame. The professional artists' club was founded in 1860., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 79, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date
[1866]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.75a]
Souvenir print, or possibly design for a membership certificate, for the professional artists' club founded in 1860. Contains an oval-framed depiction of a near nude, slightly draped cherubic boy, holding a scroll under one arm, and an artist's tongs in his other hand, as he leans on a bust of Minerva. Includes a silhouette of the boy and bust. Clasp-shaped adornments containing filigree details flank the oval. Clasps adorned with a sketchbook and paint palette that enclose a pencil and paintbrush, respectively., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 187, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.69]
Proof of circular containing floral pictorial details. Front cover shows a bouquet of flowers. Back cover shows a a frame of flowers surrounding a cherub holding a bow and arrow. Also contains a border depicted as twigs entwined with ribbon printed with the names of different scents. Scents include musk, maize flower, and Parisian., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.104c]
Advertisement containing pictorial details depicting sprigs from a raspberry bush with raspberries at different stages of ripeness., Inscribed lower left corner: 131., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.76a]
Trade card depicting a scene on a farm. A farmer, sits on a rock, and watches as an agent weighs a horse-drawn cart loaded with hay with a "Fairbanks Standard Scale." In the background, another Fairbanks' agent weighs cows on a platform scale in a pen. View also shows hay stacks in the distance. Fairbanks' Scales was established in 1830., "Principal Warehouses," including in Philadelphia listed on verso., Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Specimens Album Loose Prints Collection - Advertising Specimens [P.9349.366]
Series of illustrated trade cards for the Cincinnati lithographers, engravers, and printers. Imagery includes an allegorical female figure seated near objects symbolic of the arts and sciences, including a paint palette, compass, globe, and books and scenes of a farmer at his plow, a traveling locomotive, and sailing vessels on the ocean. Other pictorial details include ornate frames surrounding advertising text. Frames contain scrolls and bunches of grapes. The premier firm established in 1856 operated as Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co. between 1860 and 1869., Title supplied by cataloger., Color lithographs printed in either blue, green, or violet ink., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[1860-1869]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.146e, h, j- l & o]
Series of three proof, possibly trial, prints after plates from the seminal work about early 19th-century Native American culture containing 117 portraits, several after paintings by Charles Bird King. Depicts No. 3 "Mo-Hon-Go, An Osage Woman"; No. 4 Shar- I-Tar-Ish, A Pawnee Chief; and No. 6 "Se-Quo-Yah, Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet." Plates possibly trials for the Rice & Rutter edition published 1865-1870., Title supplied by cataloger., Contain registration marks., Contain plate numbers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.63a & 64a&b]
Advertisement calendar for the year 1870 containing a whimsical tromp l'oeil design composed of ornate carpets and rugs. Rolled and partially rolled carpets surround the calendar and advertising text. Two rugs adorn the lower corners. Patterns and scenes decorating the floor coverings include flowers, cherubs, vinery, geometric shapes and scenes showing a hunted elephant and a lounging dog. Pray, Sons & Co. was established in 1817., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1869]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.96]
Series of six titled collecting cards depicting views of animals cited in the Old Testament of the Bible. Includes "The Bear"; "The Lion"; "The Wild Roe"; "The Wild Ass"; "The Blackbird"; and "The Wild Goat". Views contain landscape settings, including ledges, mountains, and trees. Blackbird view includes a bird's nest and lion view includes cubs. Majority of the cards also contain the Biblical passage referencing the animal depicted., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.58a-f]
