| Creator |
W. Birch & Son. |
| Contributor |
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834 |
|
Birch, Thomas, 1779-1851 artist. |
|
Seymour, Samuel, 1796-1823, engraver. |
|
Smith, Robert, 1722-1777 architect. |
| Title |
View in Third Street, from Spruce Street Philadelphia [graphic] / Drawn, Engraved & Published by W. Birch & Son Neshaminy
Ferry.
|
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia]: W. Birch & Son |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1800 |
| Date |
[1800] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : engraving mounted on paper, hand-colored; 33 x 40 cm.(13 x 16 in.) |
| Description |
View of the tree-lined street with the Federal style mansion of wealthy legislator, William Bingham, built in 1789, and the
Powel House, residence of Mayor Samuel Powel, built after the designs of Robert Smith in 1765. Depicts street and pedestrian
traffic including several women promenading with escorts, a man in military uniform, a woman holding a baby, and a horse-drawn
carriage. The Bingham Mansion, converted to the Mansion House Hotel in 1807, was razed about 1850.The Powel House, was designated
a historic landmark in 1931.
|
| 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 216. |
|
Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views" 18. |
| 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. 18.
|
| Subject |
Bingham, William, 1752-1804 -- Homes and haunts. |
|
Powel, Samuel, 1738-1793 -- Homes and haunts. |
|
Streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Mansions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- corner of Spruce Street. |
| Genre |
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1790-1800. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views [Sn 18/P.2276.40] |
| Accession number |
P.2276.40 |
