Details
Creator W. Birch & Son.
Contributor Seymour, Samuel, 1796-1823, engraver.
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Birch, Thomas, 1779-1851 artist.
R. Campbell & Co., distributor.
Title High Street Market, Philadelphia [graphic] / Drawn, Engraved & Published by W. Birch & Son ; Sold by R. Campbell & Co., No. 30 Chesnut [sic] Street Philada.
Publisher Philadelphia: W. Birch & Son
Publisher PA. Philadelphia 1799
Date 1799
Physical Description 1 print : engraving, hand-colored ; 33 x 42 cm.(13 x 16.75 in.)
Description View of the interior of the "Jersey Market" shed on Market Street between Front and Second Streets. Depicts individuals, including a woman and boy, strolling through and in front of the closed market. Partial views of town hall and other market sheds are visible in the distance. The High Street Market established in the late 17th century, began operating from a permanent shed around 1709, providing shoppers twice a week with produce, meats, and wares from New Jersey and Pennsylvania farms.
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 207.
Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views" 10.
Notes 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. 10.
Subject Streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 100 block.
Genre Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1790-1800.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views [Sn 10/P.2276.18]
Accession number P.2276.18