Details
Creator De Chastelain, A., artist.
Contributor Palmer, Timothy, fl. 1785-1810, architect.
Title Schuylkill [graphic] / A. De Chastelain, lith.
Publisher [Paris?]
Date [1836]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 8 x 13 cm. (4.25 x 6 in.)
Description Landscape view showing the Market Street Permanent Bridge commissioned by the Schuylkill Bridge Company and completed in 1805 after the designs of engineer Timothy Palmer. The William Ellis Tucker porcelain factory (est. 1826) in the old water works pumping station (Chestnut and 21st Street) stands in the foreground. A lumber yard, pairs of trees, and pastureland are visible across from the factory. Also shows Paul Beck’s Shot Tower and sailing vessels on the river in the background. Market Street Permanent Bridge was redesigned in 1850 by the Pennsylvania Railroad and destroyed by fire in 1875.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Date from inscription on stone: Ch 1836 [3 reversed]
pdcc00020
Philadelphia on Stone
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:90
See Kathleen Foster’s Captain Watsons’ travels in America" The sketchbooks and diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1772-1818 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), plate 7 for possible original study for print.
Subject Tucker, William Ellis.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Market Street Permanent Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Associated name Palmer, Timothy, fl. 1785-1810, architect.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Photograph Collection. | FLP Castner 21:90