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[Eaglesfield estate near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] [graphic] / Drawn by T. Birch.
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Creator
Birch, Thomas, 1779-1851, artist.
Contributor
PA. Philadelphia. 1808.
Title
[Eaglesfield estate near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] [graphic] / Drawn by T. Birch.
Date
[ca. 1820]
Physical Description
1 drawing: graphite, with watercolor mounted on paper; 12 x 15 cm.(4.75 x 6 in.)
Description
Unfinished artist's study showing the banks of the Schuylkill River west of Philadelphia including Eaglesfield mansion conveyed to Robert Egglesfield Griffith in 1798. The country estate, possessed by numerous property owners, including Ann and James Greenleaf and Richard Rundle, declined to obscurity following the completion of the new Fairmount dam in 1822, the mid-century construction of the Girard Avenue Railroad Bridge, and the development of Fairmount Park in the 1860s. The house was razed around 1869.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Attribution from manuscript note on mount.
Includes manuscript note on mount: Trees on the mound, commencement of the Dam where the new works are now being built - 1861 - looking up the River. Turtle Rock. Schuylkill River above the Dam.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject
Griffith, Thomas Egglesfield -- Homes and haunts.
Estates -- Pennsylvania.
Rivers -- Pennsylvania.
Geographic subject
Eaglesfield (Pa. : Estate)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Graphite drawings -- 1810-1820.
Watercolors -- 1810-1820.
Studies -- 1810-1820.
Associated name
PA. Philadelphia.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| drawings & watercolors - Birch - Eaglesfield [P.9903]
Accession number
P.9903
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William Russell Birch Drawings and Watercolors
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