Queen, James "Saratoga-Galop Compose pour le Piano par Gustave Blessner"

Jas. Queen. "Saratoga-Galop Compose pour le Piano par Gustave Blessner."

Philadelphia: George Willig, 1841.   Lithograph sheet music with cover showing the massive colonnaded porch of Saratoga's Congress Hall, published by P.S. Duval.  6 1/2 x 6 (image) 13 x 10 1/8 (sheet).  Very good condition

James Fuller Queen (1820/21 - 1886) was apprenticed in 1835 to George Lehman and P.S. Duval as a lithographer.  He was an artist, engraver and lithographer, and a few times a print publisher.  Later in life he worked in chromolithography.  Queen drew views, scenes of events, portraits, music covers, ads, certificates, magazine illustrations and so forth.  Sometimes he would make an on-the-spot drawing for the image, and other times he worked from others' sketches.  His first published prints were in Duval & Huffy’s U.S. Military Magazine, between 1839-42.  He stayed with Duval throughout Duval’s career.

Peter S. Duval (ca. 1805-1886) was brought to Philadelphia as a 26 year old by Childs in 1831.  He was succeeded by his son, Stephen Orr Duval, in partnership with Thomas Hunter.  Peter Duval did a bit of everything, including many portraits early on.  He became partner of Lehman after Childs retired from print publishing in 1834.