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PUBLICATION DETAILS: Motto under the scene: So thy Fair hand Enamored Fancy! Gleans the Treasured Picture of a Thousand Scenes.  Watson & McGill.  Petersburg, Virginia. Published by The Calvert Lith. Co. Detroit. The tobacco firm “Watson & McGill” was in business in Petersburg from ca. 1830 to 1920.Collor lithograph. . 10” square.
 
DESCRIPTION: Depicts two chariots racing, both pulled by a single horse.  Both charioteers are women, one in pink, and the other in blue.
 
CALVERT: Thomas Calvert immigrated from England in 1849 and the founded his first graphic arts firm in Philadelphia in 1852.  He incorporated “The Calvert Lithographing, Engraving and Map Publishing Company” in 1867, a firm that was to dominate the lithographic market in Detroit.  By the 1880s it had become one of the largest lithographers in the U.S., employing over 300 people. In 1897 the legal name of the company was changed to “Calvert Lithography Company”.  The firm continued long after Calvert’s death in 1900 and sometime after 1960 was taken over by a Canadian firm.
 
CONDITION: Very good.
 
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