Details
Creator Breton, William L., artist.
Contributor Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title First Christ Church, Philada. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Kennedy & Lucas Lith
Date [1830]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 9 x 11 cm. (3.5 x 4.25 in.)
Description View showing the wood-plank building that served as the first sanctuary for the church founded and built in 1695 by the Church of England at 22-34 North Second Street. A wood fence protects the single-story, cabin-style building and the church bell hangs from the trunk of a tree fashioned as a bell tower. Wood buildings, including a dwelling, flank the church in front of which pedestrians walk. A woman stands in the doorway of the residence and a woman enters the gateway to Christ Church.
Notes Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 315.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 258
Trimmed. Originally part of a plate of two images. Second image shows "Shippen's House, So. Second Street."
Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of "Illustrations of Philadelphia."
Subject Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Episcopal churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 22-34.
Genre Lithographs -- 1820-1830.
Book illustrations -- 1820-1830.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Religion [(2)1525.F.51]
Accession number (2)1525.F.51