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Creator Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834.
Title High Street, from the country market-place Philadelphia [graphic] : with the procession in commemoration of the death of General George Washington, December 26th, 1799 / Designed & Published by W. Birch Enamel Painter 1800.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: W. Birch
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1804
Date [1804]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving, hand-colored mounted on paper; 33 x 40 cm.(13 x 16 in.)
Description View of Market Street above Fourth Street showing the funeral procession instituted by a congressional decree in honor of the first president. Depicts a riderless horse, pallbearers carrying a draped empty bier adorned with swords and tricorn hat, and other parade participants, including members of Congress and militia volunteers, slowly moving passed several mourning spectators. Mourners line the street, watch from the windows of several buildings, and stand within a market shed, including a woman and child.
Is part of City of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania North America; as it appeared in the year 1800. Second edition 1804 consisting of twenty copper plates.
Is referenced by Snyder, City of Independence 208B variant.
Snyder, "William Birch: His Views" 11c variant.
Notes Third of three variants.
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. 11.
Subject Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Death and burial.
Streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Funeral processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Weepers (Mourners) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block.
Genre Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1800-1810.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views - Sn 11c varient [P.2276.21]
Accession number P.2276.21