Litografia Briggs

Litography Begging for the holy ghost , by Frederico Guilherme Briggs, published in "Brasilian souvernir : a Selection of the most peculiar costumes of the Brazils" in 1845

History

Frederico Guilherme Briggs (1813-1870) was a Brazilian-English lithographer and engraver. He learned the lithography techniques in the Day & Haghe Office (England). In 1837 he established his lithographic atelier in Rio de Janeiro, but it was only in 1840 that he created the Litografia Briggs, that printed maps, letters, bills, news, tickets, addresses, tags for bottles, music, drawings, etc. He bought the João José do Rego lithographic atelier, which published the musical periodical Philo-harmonico. Briggs continued to publish the sequence of this periodical. In 1843 he associates with the Prussian lithographer Peter Ludwig (ca.1814-1876).

Imprints

• 1840: Litografia Briggs
• 1843-ca.1849: Litographia do Commercio de Ludwig & Briggs.

Address

• 1839: Rua do Ouvidor, 151
• 1840: Rua do Ouvidor, 130
• 1846: Rua dos Pescadores, 88
• 1849: Rua dos Ourives, 142

Sources consulted

• Impressão Musical no Brasil. In: ENCICLOPÉDIA da Música Brasileira. 3. ed. São Paulo: ARt Editora, Publifolha, 2000.
• BRIGGS . In: ENCICLOPÉDIA Itaú Cultural de Arte e Cultura Brasileiras. São Paulo: Itaú Cultural, 2021
• LEME, Mônica. Impressão Musical no Rio de Janeiro (Séc XIX): Modinhas e Lundus para "Iaiás" e "Ioiôs". In: CONGRESSO DA ANPPOM, 15, 2005.

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