Details
Creator Rosienkiewicz, Martin, artist.
Contributor Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Printer Lehman, George, d. 1870, lithographer.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Printer: Lehman & Duval Lithrs., publisher.
Title Portico Square. [graphic] : Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies 6 Portico Square. M. Rosienkiewicz, del.; On stone by George Lehman.
Publisher Philadelphia : Lehman & Duval Lithrs.,
Date [1837]
Extent 1 print : lithograph; 17 x 15 cm. (6.5 x 6 in.)
Description View of the brick rowhouses also known as Portico Row built 1833-1835 after the designs of Thomas U. Walter at 900-930 Spruce Street. Tenants of the row included the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (1836-1841), commodore Isaac Hull (1842-1843), and author Sarah Josepha Hale (1859-1861). Also shows surrounding dwellings north and south of Spruce Street. Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies was a private school established circa 1830 that provided its students with an education based on religious principles, including courses in art, languages, and sciences.
Notes Published as frontispiece to Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (Philadelphia, 1837).
Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Select link below to view a digital image.
Reassigned McAllister accession number.
Poor condition.
Genre Lithographs 1830-1840.
Subject Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies.
Row houses--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage Spruce Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)--900-930.
Is part of Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by Wainwright 297.
Has format TMP.objres.4529.jpg
Related resource http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W297.htm
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W297 [(8)1322.F.7g]
Accession number (8)1322.F.7g