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Creator Stauffer, David McNeely 1845-1913.
Title [David McNeely Stauffer collection of prints and original drawings for his extra-illustrated Westcott’s History of Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850-1900
Date [ca. 1831-ca. 1900; bulk ca. 1850-ca. 1900]
Physical Description 39 drawings : ink and watercolor ; sheet 28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in.) or smaller
30 prints : engravings and etchings ; sheet 28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in.) or smaller
Description Collection of titled drawings and prints after drawings drawn by David McNeely Stauffer for his extra-illustrated "Westcott’s History of Philadelphia." Graphics depict portraits of prominent persons and images of dwellings, graves and tombs, financial ephemera, and seals associated with Philadelphia or the history of Philadelphia.
Titles of drawings include: Arabic Characters … from the Original in Watson's Manuscript Annals in the Pennsylvania Historical Soc.; Arch Street Prison; Archibald McCall from a Miniature; Arms of Queen Anna; Caesar A. Rodney; Clock presented to Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn from Chamber's Cyclopedia; "Essex House" where Penn landed 168[X]; Friend's Meeting Salem N.J: built 1772; Grave of the Wife of Andrew Robeson; Grenadier, 1776; "Hardwicke" on the Conestoga, Lancaster Pa.; Hendrick Hudson; Jas. Smith; The John Fanning House near Walpole, Conn.; Joshua Fisher; Lady Ann Keith; Official Seal of Wm. Dummer, Colonial Gov. of Massachusetts; The "Old Cannon-Ball" or "Balcony" House; Old House NW corner Front and Race Sts.; On East Wall of St. Peter's; The Phillip's Mansion on Arch between 13th and Broad Sts.; Provincial Currency, 1723; Receipt of Free Society of Traders; Residence of Jeremiah Langhorne; The Residence of John Bleakley; Residence of Louis Phillippe; Rittenhouse Academy; [Seal of] Sir William Keith, Governor of Pennsylvania; Sketches in Old Swedes Church Yard; Thomas Penn, Esq; Toland's House. Germantown; Tomb of Lady Ann Keith, Christ Church; [Unidentified Building]; Whitby Hall; and Ye Seals of ye Original Counties; Canopy over Door/Cornice and Brick; Gott Segne Dies Haus Und Ales Was; Maurer im Lebanon/Henrich Rewalt, 1778; Old “Knox Homestead” near Norristown, Montgomery Co., Pa.; Tapeworm Man-Lancaster Market.
Title of prints include: Bits about the Corner of Fisher's Lane and Germantown Avenue; Carnival, Philadelphia, 1778; Centre Square Philada.; Dr. John L. Atlee; Farmer & Mechanic Bank, Philadelphia, Chestnut St.; The Fraticide at Wyoming; Philadelphia Soc. of Fine Arts; Hon J. I. Clark Hare; Indian Queen Hotel; Interior of the Chestnut Street Theatre, 1793; John Armstrong; Masonic Hall, Philadelphia; Mauch Chunk; Monument, Market Street Bridge, Philadelphia; The Moravian Church and Parsonage; Odd Fellow's Hall, Broad Street and Central High School, Broad Street; Old Courthouse, Lancaster, PA; Old Court House Second and Market; Old German School on Cherry Street; Philadelphia [Harbor Scene]; Postlewaite's Tavern, First Courts of Lanc Co. held here; Rear View of Houses at Eighth and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia; The Residence of John Bleakley; Rev. Robert R. Roberts, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church; "Shippen Mansion" Res of Dr. B. Rush; South East Corner of Third and Market ; St. Michael's; The House in which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; The Swedes' Church and House of Sven Sener (From Watson's "Annals of Philadelphia"); Washington's Headquarters at Morristown; and Ye Conyngham House.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from imprints and manuscript notes on items.
Various artists and engravers including James Charles Armytage, Gill Eng. Co., James B. Longacre, R. A. Muller, John Neagle, Howard Pyle, Charles A. Poulson, David McNeely Stauffer, and Henry Warren.
Several drawings signed by artist lower right corner: DMS
Several drawings and prints numbered in pencil and/or contain pencil annotations. Numbers probably refer to corresponding page number of extra illustration.
Some drawings and prints contain attributions to provenance or original artist, including Chambers Cyclopedia, John Fanning Watson, and William Darlington.
P.2018.64.25 contains pencil sketch of row house on verso. P.2021.43.16 contains a pencil sketch of Pepper estate on verso. P.2021.43.19 contains a partial map of Boneet Carre Point, Louisiana on the verso.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Biographical / historical note David McNeely Stauffer (1845-1913) was a civil engineer, author, antiquarian, and artist most known for his biographical dictionary "American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel: Biographical sketches and Check Lists of Engravings" first published in 1907. From 1893 to 1913 he devoted much of his time to the extra-illustration of "Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1829" as printed in the Sunday Dispatch (1854-1884).
Subject Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Portraits.
Seals (Insignia)
Tombs & sepulchral monuments.
Geographic subject Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Drawings -- 1880-1900.
Engravings -- 1830-1900.
Etchings -- 1830-1900.
Portraits -- 1830-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Stauffer Collection [P.2018.64; P.2018.65; P.2019.62.5; P.2021.43.16-20]
Accession number P.2018.64
P.2018.65
P.2019.62.5
P.2021.43.16
P.2021.43.17
P.2021.43.18
P.2021.43.19
P.2021.43.20