Details
Creator Fox, Gilbert, 1776-1807? etcher.
Contributor Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834 delineator.
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820 architect.
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, publisher.
Title The late theatre in Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia [graphic]: Destroyed by Fire in 1820 / Drawn & Published by W. Birch near Bristol, 1804; Gilbert Fox Aquafortus.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: W. Birch
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1828
Date [1828]
Physical Description 1 print : etching ; 32 x 46 cm. (12.75 x 18 in.)
Description View of the altered first building of the Chestnut Street Theater, at Chestnut above Sixth Street, the front facade redesigned by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1805 with columns flanked by wings. The most lavish and first gas-lit theater in the country, opened in 1794, was destroyed by fire on April 2, 1820, and rebuilt after the designs of William Strickland in 1822. Depicts several individuals, predominately couples, strolling and convening near the theater. A horse-drawn carriage, with three people, travels in the street.
Is part of City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, as it appeared in the year 1800.
Is referenced by Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views" 32b.
Notes Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Subject Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- above Sixth Street.
Genre Etchings -- 1820-1830.
Printer Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's Views [Sn 32b/P.2276.68]
Accession number P.2276.68