Details
Creator Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834.
Contributor Trumbull, John, 1756-1843, architect.
Title High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church [graphic] : Taken down in 1820. Philadelphia / Designed & Published by W. Birch Enamel Painter 1800.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: W. Birch
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1828
Date [1828]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving, hand-colored; 33 x 42 cm.(13 x 16.75 in.)
Description Street scene with a view of the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street below Third Street. Depicts pedestrians, predominately women, traversing the sidewalk before the church and adjacent buildings; a horse-drawn dray and cart traveling the street; and a woman peddler with her basket of goods near the High Street market shed. First Presbyterian, rebuilt from 1793 to 1794 after the designs of John Trumbull, was the first building in the city with a classic temple facade. The building was razed following the relocation of the congregation.
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 206.
Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views" 9c.
Notes Contains watermark: Amies Phila and dove with branch.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 9.
Subject First Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Peddlers and peddling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 200 block.
Genre Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1820-1830.
Associated name Trumbull, John, 1756-1843, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views [Sn 9c/P.2276.17]
Accession number P.2276.17