| Creator |
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834 artist. |
| Contributor |
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector. |
| Title |
[Artist's study of detail from New Lutheran Church, in Fourth Street Philadelphia] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1799 |
| Date |
[ca. 1799] |
| Physical Description |
1 drawing: watercolor; 11 x 12 cm. (4.25 x 4.5 in.) |
| Description |
Street scene on Fourth Street below Cherry Street depicting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg,
leading a tour of a delegation of Native American men. Native American delegations visited the city to pay respects and to
negotiate land treaties when Philadelphia served as the nation's capitol. Muhlenberg led a tour of several tribal groups in
1793. Also shows buildings in the right, including the New Lutheran Church built 1795-1796.
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| Is referenced by |
See Snyder, City of Independence 203. |
| Notes |
Title from plate 6 in the first edition of Birch's "Views of Philadelphia." |
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Bequest of Charles Poulson, 1866. |
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Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
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Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook. |
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See Martin Snyder's "William Birch: His Philadelphia views," The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 73 (July 1949),
p. 271-315.
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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 43. (LCP Print Room Albums).
|
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Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia : Portrait of an American city (Philadelphia: Camino Books in cooperation with The
Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), p. 105.
|
| Subject |
Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad, 1750-1801, |
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Delegations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Indigenous peoples -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Tours. |
| Geographic subject |
Fourth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- below Cherry Street. |
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Tours. |
| Genre |
Watercolors -- 1790-1800. |
|
Studies -- 1790-1800. |
| Provenance |
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| drawings & watercolors - Birch - Colonel Muhlenberg [P.9666] |
| Accession number |
P.9666 |
