Details
Creator Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist.
Contributor Lehman & Duval, printer.
Title View of the launch of the U.S. ship of war Pennsylvania [graphic] : From the Navy Yard at Philadelphia, July 18th 1837. / Geo. Lehman, del.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lithog. & published by Lehman & Duval
Date [1837]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 35 x 45 cm. (13.75 x 17.5 in.)
Description View showing several spectators on vessels in the Delaware River watching the launch of the largest sailing ship built to that date by the U.S. Several tall ships, rowboats, and sailboats filled with spectators congest the river as the ship glides out from its storage house. In the background, cityscape is barely visible behind the several masts of the spectator ships. Pennsylvania, one of nine ships authorized by Congress in April 1816 to carry at least 74 guns, was designed and built 1821-1837 by Samuel Humphreys in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The ship remained in service until 1842 when she became a receiving ship for the Norfolk Navy Yard, where she was burned at the onset of the Civil War. The first U.S. Navy Yard was established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801 in Southwark. The facility, which built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships, operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island.
Is referenced by Wainwright 480
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 803
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 56 Penna 381
Subject Naval yards & naval stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Warships -- American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Spectators -- American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Southwark (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 56 Penna 381