Details
Creator Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834.
Title State House garden, Philadelphia [graphic] / Designed Engraved & Published by W. Birch Enamel Painter.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: W. Birch
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1804
Date [1804]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving, hand-colored; 33 x 38 cm. (13 x 15 in.)
Description View showing the well-patronized garden at the rear of the State House on Walnut Street, enclosed by a brick wall and a tall gateway with wooden doors. Depicts several individuals at leisure, walking, sitting on a bench, and conversing on the landscaped grounds. The grounds purchased in 1760, enclosed in 1770 (the gate given by legislator and State House trustee Joseph Fox), was landscaped with trees and promenades under the direction of visiting Jamaican trader and American Philosophical Society member Samuel Vaughan around 1784.
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, "William Birch: His Views of Philadelphia" 34.
Notes Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Leisure -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block -- north side.
Genre Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1800-1810.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views [Sn 34/P.2276.55]
Accession number P.2276.55