Details
Creator Breton, William L. artist.
Contributor Carey & Hart, publisher.
Title Stone Prison at Philadelphia, 1728. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: Kennedy & Lucas Lith]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1830
Date [1830]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 14 x 23 cm. (5.75 x 9 in.)
Description Reversed view set during the colonial era showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 at Third and High (Market) streets. The site included a debtor's jail (High Street side) and workhouse (Third Street side) joined together by a wall that formed part of a yard enclosure. Men in colonial attire walk in front of the jail and past the wall to the workhouse. A horse stands between two small outbuildings in the right of the image. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison.
Notes Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp.
Manuscript note on recto: Same in 2 book. Reversed and variant in th [sic] book.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 726
Gift of James Rush.
See Martin Snyder, "William J Breton, Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Artist," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (April 1961), p. 194 about the later impressions of the view reversed and printed from a redrawn stone.
Subject High Street Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Prisons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 300 block -- south side.
Genre Lithographs -- 1820-1830.
Book illustrations -- 1820-1830.
Printer Carey & Hart, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Prisons [9245.Q.24]
Accession number 9245.Q.24