Advertising card from the lithographer "J. A. Hofmann" - Circa 1860

Rare advertising card from the J. A. Hofmann workshop in Würzburg, lithographer, paper and stationery merchant. Its refined composition features two putti, the attributes of printing, and a bust of Senefelder, explicitly presented as the inventor of lithography. It serves as both a workshop advertisement and a very evocative testimony to German graphic arts of the mid-19th century.

✦ Estimated period: circa 1858-1865
✦ Provenance: Germany, Würzburg – J. A. Hofmann lithographic workshop
✦ Dimensions: approx. 11 x 8 cm
✦ Material: color lithograph on paper
✦ Condition: traces of glue, old stains and dirt, slight general wear; right edge slightly trimmed, with no major impact on the design. Small localized loss at the upper left corner.

This old lithographer's advertising card is a rare 19th-century ephemeral piece for collectors of printing, stationery, and graphic arts history.