Catamaran. Speel's Owl. (Charlotte Cushman, character actress and longtime manager of the Walnut Street Theatre and Joseph A. Speel, bookbinder).

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• PUBLISHER: Published by Samuel Robinson, Philadelphia.

• MEDIUM: Chromolithograph,

  DATE: 1851

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 8 x 5 1/4" (200 x 133 mm).

• DESCRIPTION: From Henry Stephen's "The Comic Natural History," in which Stephens caricatured prominent figures of the day, from entertainers to politicians. He also included "types" of people, ranging from the "Vampire," a sanctimonious religious moralist, to the "Wharf Rat." Lithography by (Louis) Rosenthal & (Peter) Kraemer. The Rosenthals, like other major lithographers in Philadelphia, experimented with chromolithography and won a prize for their work in this field at the 1851 exhibition at the Franklin Institute.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good to fair condition. Some toning along paper edge and a few bits of paper missing at right paper edge.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Caricatures and Satirical , Caricatures