Details
Contributor Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898, printer.
Sidney & Neff, architect.
Title Tredegar. Residence of C.W. Morgan, esqr. Germantown. Sidney & Neff, archts. : Frame. Cost $3,000 [graphic] / Sidney & Neff, 80, Walnut St. Philada.
Publisher Philadelphia : Tholey, lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date 1850
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; 26 x 35 cm (10 x 13.75 in.)
Description Exterior view showing the two-story residence with an extension, gable roof, covered porch, and steps to the entrance as well as surrounding grounds. A pathway leads to the house. Trees line the fenced property which is also landscaped with a few plants and shrubs. In the right, a shed between two trees and near the edge of a pond is visible C.W. Morgan is possibly the Charles W. Morgan listed in the 1850 census as a resident of Germantown and an oil merchant in the fuel and ice retailing industry.
Notes Title and date from item.
Printed in upper right corner: Plate 11.
Probably published in J.C. Sidney's American cottage and villa architecture : a series of views and plans ... (New York: Appleton & Co., 1850). The book was to be issued in ten parts, monthly, beginning in July, 1850. The series was never completed and 4-5 parts containing a total of 22 plates by various Northeastern architects are known.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 298
Subject Morgan, C.W., -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philad elphia.
Geographic subject Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Sidney & Neff, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2019.64.36]
Accession number P.2019.64.36