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Creator Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834 engraver.
Title Penn's tree, with the city & port of Philadelphia, on the river Delaware from Kensington [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Published as the act directs by W. Birch, Springland Cot, near Bristol 1800
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1828
Date [1828]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving, hand-colored ; 30 x 38 cm. (12 x 15.25 in.)
Description Northeast view from the site of the Treaty Tree, the legendary location of William Penn's treaty with the Delaware Indians in 1682. Depicts a pier with docked boats; laborers, including shipbuilders, at work; and individuals relaxing, fishing, leading a horse, and strolling near a fenced property displaying the American flag. The Treaty Tree or Great Elm Tree blew down in 1810.
Is part of City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, as it appeared in the year 1800.
Is referenced by Snyder, City of Independence 199.
Snyder, "William Birch: His Views" 2c.
Notes Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), Pl. 2.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Treaty Tree (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Penn's treaty with the Indians, 1682.
Harbors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rivers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1820-1830.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views [Sn 2c/P.2276.4]
Accession number P.2276.4