Details
Creator W. Birch & Son.
Contributor Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Birch, Thomas, 1779-1851 artist.
Seymour, Samuel, 1796-1823, engraver.
L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825 architect.
R. Campbell & Co., distributor.
Title An unfinished house, in Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia [graphic] / Drawn Engraved & Published by W. Birch & Son ; Sold by R. Campbell & Co. No. 30 Chesnut [sic] Street Philada. 1800.
Publisher Philadelphia: W. Birch & Son
Publisher PA. Philadelphia 1800
Date 1800
Physical Description 1 print : engraving; 33 x 41 cm.(13 x 16.5 in.)
Description View showing "Morris' Folly", the unfinished brick and marble mansion on Chestnut Street above Seventh Street, designed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant for Philadelphia merchant and financier Robert Morris. Individuals stroll the grounds, and a laborer carries a ladder passed a guardhouse. Morris' mansion, begun about 1796 and unfinished as a result of his bankruptcy, was demolished in 1800, the building materials sold to finance creditors.
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 211.
Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views" 14a.
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. 14.
Reproduced with article in Poulson's Scrapbook of Philadelphia History, vol. VII, p. 54-55. (LCP reference copy Uy 8, 2526.F)
Subject Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 -- Homes and haunts.
Mansions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Guardhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block -- south side.
Genre Engravings -- 1790-1800.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views [Sn 14a/P.2276.27]
Accession number P.2276.27