The Card Player
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]
[Sunday in the Country]
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
The industrious man
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
The rogue caught
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
Album [graphic].
Title
Album
Description
Album of genre scenes depicting European life in the country. Several contain children and animals, who are often in rural and buccolic settings. Includes plate 19 showing a Gypsy boy, with a monkey on his shoulder, and accompanied by two dogs walking past a farm; plate 20 showing a figurine peddler dropping his wares when frightened by a mother dog protecting her pups at a rustic family homestead; plate 3 depicting a woman, a rifle over her shoulder, guiding the horse of a Zouave soldier away from his fellow troops; plate 2 depicting a woman, with a book, possibly a Bible under her arm, walking with two boys past two men working in their garden; plate 5 showing a family in a canoe fishing with a net; plate 6 showing young hunters stealing the game of their napping companion; plate 7 depicting a young farm girl asleep near a picnic basket and a dog while her elders build hay huts in the background; plate 8 depicting a gypsy violinist with his dog near a stone wall and under the gaze of a barefoot peasant boy and girl; plate 9 showing a girl wading near an unhappy duck family in a river below a mountain range accompanied by a young male companion seated on the shore; plate 10 showing two young farm women attending to rabbits in the doorway of a hutch; plate 11 showing a peasant woman, carrying a bundle of wheat, and with a girl on a dirt road who watch a man, with a specimen box, seated near his net and holding a snake; plate 12 showing a wife in traditional costume leading a mule carrying her peasant husband and their child and a large bundle; plate 13 showing a father and his two young girls ice fishing with their dog and a picnic basket; plate 14 showing two girls gathering fire wood near a frozen river and with their dog; and plate 14 showing a girl making a floral wreath near another girl petting a dog attended by a boy on a hillside below a castle-like structure., Also includes plate 16 showing a toddler boy in a gown and socks walking to his mother seated next to his father in their rustic home; plate 17 depicting an older peasant boy and young woman attempting to wake a peasant girl sleeping on a hay bale in a farm field; an unnumbered plate showing an older boy disrobing for a swim beside a dog and a younger boy leaning on a pier near the ocean; and plate 4 showing a girl standing near a boy petting a dog laying near a tree on which a hunter's bag, rifle, and cap hang., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Maggie A. Fleming, June 1850., Title stamped on front cover., Green morrocco binding., Plate numbers printed in upper right corner of all, except one print. Bound out of order., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Forms part of Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection., Gift of Helen Beitler and the estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - album [9475.F]