Details
Creator Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834 artist.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title [Artist's study for the State-House garden, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1798
Date [ca. 1798]
Physical Description 1 drawing: pen and ink, with watercolor; 22 x 28 cm. (8.75 x 11 in.)
Description View showing the well-patronized garden enclosed by a brick wall with a tall gateway with wooden doors on Walnut Street at the rear of the State House. Depicts several individuals at leisure, walking, sitting on a bench, and conversing on the grounds landscaped with trees. The garden grounds purchased in 1760, enclosed in 1770 (the gate given by legislator and State House trustee Joseph Fox), was landscaped under the direction of visiting Jamaican trader and American Philosophical Society member Samuel Vaughan around 1784.
Is referenced by See Snyder, City of Independence 221.
Notes Title from plate 23 in the first edition of Birch's "Views of Philadelphia."
Bequest of Charles Poulson, 1866.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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 45. (LCP Print Room Albums)
See Martin Snyder's "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 73 (July 1949), p. 271-315.
Subject Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Leisure -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block -- north side.
Genre Ink drawings -- 1790-1800.
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 - State House Garden [P.9668]
Accession number P.9668