Details
Creator W. Birch & Son.
Contributor Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Birch, Thomas, 1779-1851 artist.
Seymour, Samuel, 1796-1823, engraver.
Thornton, William, 1759-1828, architect.
R. Campbell & Co., publisher.
Title [Library and Surgeons Hall, in Fifth Street Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn & Engraved by W. Birch & Son.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by R. Campbell & Co. No. 30 Chesnut [sic] Street
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1799
Date 1799
Physical Description 1 print : engraving mounted on paper ; 33 x 40 cm.(13 x 16 in.)
Description View on Fifth Street above Walnut Street including the halls of the Library Company of Philadelphia (built 1790) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (built 1792). Depicts patrons entering and leaving the Palladian style red brick library building; men and a boy playing dice on the sidewalk; a blacksmith working in his shop; and a man leading a horse-drawn cart down the street. The Library Company, established by Benjamin Franklin and his Junto in 1731, remained at the hall designed by Dr. William Thornton until 1880; the building razed in 1887. Surgeons or Anatomical Hall served as a lecture room and chemistry laboratory for the University's medical students until 1807.
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 217.
Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views" 19a.
Notes Title from duplicate print.
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. 19.
Subject Library Company of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine -- Buildings.
Libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Universities & colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Blacksmiths -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dice games -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- above Walnut Street.
Printer R. Campbell & Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views [Sn 19a/P.2276.42]
Accession number P.2276.42