Details
Creator Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1910.
Title Library Building on 5th Street.
Date 1880
Physical Description Oil on wood ; 7 x 8 inches.
Notes Signed on the bottom left corner, “GB Wood, 1880.”
The painting depicts the interior of the Library Company's building on 5th Street. Lloyd P. Smith, the Librarian, is standing behind the charge desk. There is a woman and her dog standing in front of the desk with her back to the viewer. It is possible the woman is supposed to be Anne Hampton Brewster who owned a dog and was a close friend of Lloyd P. Smith.
Represented in the painting (behind the Librarian's Desk) are the following objects: Bust of Clytie (OBJ #536), Bust of Apollo (OBJ #538), Painting of Stenton by Lewis (OBJ #142), and Portrait of James Logan by Sully (OBJ#255)
Gift of Dr. William Pepper, 1893.
Subject Smith, Lloyd P. (Lloyd Pearsall), 1822-1886.
Brewster, Anne M. H. (Anne Maria Hampton), 1819-1892.
Library Company of Philadelphia.
Dogs.
Library buildings.
Genre Painting.
Location OBJ 235
Accession number OBJ 235