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- Title
- The card player Engraved from the original picture in the possession of William J. Hoppin Esq
- Description
- Genre print showing a card game between a card sharp and an older gentleman traveler in a waiting room. The gamblers sit at a table, under the guise of a young male referee standing and smoking a pipe. The young card player stirs a hot toddy and hides a card under his thigh. The older traveler, his coat on his chair and his hat and umbrella resting beside him, places his hand on a card, and peers past his cheating opponent at a mirror on the wall. The traveler's African American servant sits patiently behind him across from a stove. Debris lays on the floor and several layers of playbills hang on the wall near a pendulum and framed print., After an 1846 painting by Richard Caton Woodville in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI., One of six prints issued in 1850 for the members of the American Art-Union in New York., Gift of David Doret., Hoppin was an Art-Union officer., Described in the Bulletin of the American Art-Union, May 1849, p. 9., 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.
- Creator
- Burt, Charles Kennedy, 1823-1892, engraver
- Date
- [1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Genre [P.2006.28.24]
- Title
- [Sunday in the Country]
- Description
- Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing two young women attired in bonnets and day dresses as they sit sidesaddle and race their horses down a dirt road in the country side on the way to Sunday-school. Accompanying text explicates: These ladies have been accustomed to the saddle from their childhood, and ride the fleetest horses without fear. They have a fine wholseome air this morning, and we hope their conversation by the way, is such as will best fit them for worship of God., Not in Wainwright., pdcj00002, Accompanying text explicates: These ladies have been accustomed to the saddle from their childhood, and ride the fleetest horses without fear. They have a fine wholseome air this morning, and we hope their conversation by the way, is such as will best fit them for worship of God., Published in Common sights in town and country (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, between 1847 and 1857)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 246, Free Library of Philadelphia: Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 57
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 57
- Title
- The industrious man It is Saturday night. The industrious man returns home from his labour in peace-He is welcome to an humble home-Pleasant smiles and happy voices greet him. Let him fear and serve God will bless him and his household for ever
- Description
- Shows a man returning to his quaint home and family convened around the dining table after a day of work. He enters the door with a lunch pail in his hand and greets his son who runs to him. In front of the table, laid out with a pot of tea, an older daughter uses a plate of water to bathe her younger sister who has been stripped to her waist. At the end of the table, the mother holds a baby at her bosom. Nearby, the family cat sits in front of the stove slightly visible in the right of the image., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00026, Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Manuscript note on verso: James L. & Isaac W. Morris from Aunt Sarah [Pitrom’s?] Christmas 1849, Accompanied by text titled "Welcome Home" moralizing that a happy home stems from a strong work ethic by the "honest laborer" who is one of the "noblest of men.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 117, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
- Creator
- Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1849]
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
- Title
- The rogue caught These boys often told, not to throw stones, but they would not mind and now one of them has broken the grocers window, and he or his poor father must pay for it
- Description
- Depicts a grocery clerk, in his apron, angrily grabbing a boy outside of his “Temperance Grocery” store that contains a broken window. One of the boy's mischievious friends holds his knee in pain as the other flees from him and the clerk. Two girls depart from the store entrance behind the hurt boy. Rows of merchandise line the window of the store., Date inferred from complementary print with dated manuscript note., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00025, Issued in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Accompanied by text titled "A Common Snare" moralizing about the tempation to do wrong is one of the "snares of the Wicked One" that will lead one to ruin. "Fear God and you need fear nothing else.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 196, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
- Creator
- Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1849]
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union