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Penn's landing at Essex House, Chester. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A64822
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Creator
Breton, William L., artist.
Contributor
Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography, printer.
Title
Penn's landing at Essex House, Chester. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia: Kennedy & Lucas Lith]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1830
Date
[1830]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 23 x 14 cm. (9 x 5.75 in.)
Description
Book illustration showing the reception of the William Penn landing party arriving ashore at Upland, renamed Chester, from the ship "Welcome" in October 1682. A couple, Robert and Lydia Wade, walks from the Essex House, the residence of Wade, toward the party. Cows graze nearby. Also includes a partial view of Penn's ship. The residence and temporary home for Penn, was situated near the intersection of Chester Creek and the Delaware River. Penn moored his ship at Chester, and arrived in Philadelphia via a barge upriver.
Notes
Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 117.
Manuscript note on recto: a different plate from that of the book.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 163
Gift of James Rush.
Subject
Wade, Robert -- Homes and haunts.
Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Chester.
Arrivals & departures -- Pennsylvania -- Chester.
Ships -- Pennsylvania -- Chester.
Geographic subject
Chester (Pa.)
Genre
Lithographs -- 1820-1830.
Book illustrations -- 1820-1830.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Events [9245.Q.10]
Accession number
9245.Q.10
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
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