Details
Creator W. Birch & Son.
Contributor Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Birch, Thomas, 1779-1851 artist.
Seymour, Samuel, 1796-1823, engraver.
Hamilton, Andrew, ca. 1676-1741, architect.
Woolley, Edmund, ca. 1695-1771, architect.
R. Campbell & Co., publisher.
Title State-House, with a view of Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia [graphic] / Drawn & Engraved by W. Birch & Son.
Publisher Philadelphia: Published by R. Campbell & Co. Chesnut [sic] Street
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1798
Date 1798
Physical Description 1 print : engraving, hand-colored; 33 x 40 cm. (13 x 15.5 in.)
Description View showing Chestnut Street between Fifth and Sixth streets including Independence Hall (built from 1732-48) and the U.S. Supreme Court building, orginally built in 1791 for a city hall. In the foreground, a woman and child walk passed a guardhouse and pump. The State House, built after the designs of Andrewr Hamilton and Edmund Wooley, was initially used as the meeting place of the Pennsylvania Assembly. The U.S. Supreme Court adjudicated in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1800.
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 219.
Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views" 21.
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. 21.
Subject Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pennsylvania. Supreme Court
Public buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Guardhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Genre Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1790-1800.
Associated name Woolley, Edmund, ca. 1695-1771, architect.
Printer R. Campbell & Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views [Sn 21/P.2276.47]
Accession number P.2276.47