CURRENT EXHIBITION:

Open to the public in the Library Company’s Louise Lux-Sions and Harry Sions Gallery

Philadelphia on Stone: The First Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography, 1828-1878

PhilagraficaThis exhibition explores the history of 19th-century Philadelphia lithography and its impact on contemporary visual culture. Philadelphia on Stone explicates the history and process of lithography, documents the professional and personal lives of premier and journeymen lithographers, and includes lithographs from the collections of the Library Company and several other institutions whose collections were surveyed. In addition, the work of contemporary lithographers Kip Deeds and Roberta Delaney will be on display to represent the continuing influence of this trade on the printed arts.

The Library Company is pleased to acknowledge generous funding of the Philadelphia on Stone project from the William Penn Foundation.

Philadelphia on Stone is an Independent Project of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia’s international festival celebrating print in contemporary art.

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Above right inset image: Christian Schussele, Chromo lithography (Philadelphia: P.S. Duval, 1850). Chromolithograph. Library Company of Philadelphia

EXHIBITIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE

Disassembled Daguerreotype and Case, ca. 1859.

 

NEW: Philadelphia on Stone: The First Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography, 1828-1878

 

 

Online exhibitions are arranged by title, click on image to view.

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Disassembled Daguerreotype and Case, ca. 1859.

 

Catching A Shadow: Daguerreotypes in Philadelphia, 1839-1860

 

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Crisis of the Union

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Faces and Facades

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Far from the Path of Virtue: Women on the Margins of Morality in Antebellum America

 

From the Bottom Up

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The Genisis of Republicanism

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The Hook and the Book

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Ice Skating

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The Liberation of Jane Johnson

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Risky Business: Winning and Losing in the Early American Economy, 1780-1850

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