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View from Springland Cot, Na Shaminy [sic] [graphic].
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Creator
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834 artist.
Contributor
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
PA. Philadelphia. 1808.
Title
View from Springland Cot, Na Shaminy [sic] [graphic].
Date
[ca. 1808]
Physical Description
1 drawing: pen and ink, with watercolor; 17 x 26 cm. (6.75 x 10.25 in.)
Description
Study for the plate, "The View from Springland," published in Birch's "Country Seats of the United States," showing the gated lush grounds of Springland, William Birch's Pennsylvania country home near Neshaminy Creek in Bucks County from 1798 to 1818. Birch sold the property in 1805, continue to dwell on the grounds, and repurchased the estate in 1813. View includes an abandoned bridge and abandoned toll house. The toll house puportedly converted by Birch into his studio.
Notes
Bequest of Charles Poulson, 1866.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
See Martin Snyder's "William Birch: His Country Seats of the United States" The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 81 (July 1957), p. 225-254.
Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook.
Reproduced in Julius Sachse's Pictures of old Philadelphia from the originals in the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1901), vol. 1, plate 48. (LCP Print Room Albums).
Subject
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834 -- Homes and haunts.
Estates -- Pennsylvania.
Artist's studios -- Pennsylvania -- Springland.
Geographic subject
Springland (Pa. : Estate)
Bucks County (Pa.)
Neshaminy Creek (Pa.)
Genre
Ink drawings -- 1800-1810.
Watercolors -- 1800-1810.
Associated name
PA. Philadelphia.
Provenance
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus) 1789-1866, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| drawings & watercolors - Birch - Springland Cot [P.8759.3]
Accession number
P.8759.3
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William Russell Birch Drawings and Watercolors
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