Details
Creator Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834.
Title Back of the State House, Philadelphia [graphic] / 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 41 cm. (13 x 16 in.)
Description View of the courtyard and rear of the State House, with the mason tall case clock visible on the west wall. Several visitors utilize the grounds, including a delegation of Native Americans on tour, strolling couples, women promenading, and boys playing near a grove of trees. In the background, stand the American Philosophical Hall (built 1789); the site of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Library Hall (built 1791); and guard houses. Also visible is signage for Peale's Museum, housed in American Philosophical Hall between 1794 and 1811.
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 220.
Snyder, "William Birch: His Views" 22c.
Notes Contains watermark: AMIES PHILA and dove with branch.
Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 22.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
American Philosophical Society -- Buildings.
Library Company of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
City & town halls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Courtyards -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Genre Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1820-1830.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views [ Sn 22c/P.2276.50]
Accession number P.2276.50