Details
Creator Breton, William L., artist.
Contributor Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography, printer.
Title Clark's Inn &c. facing the State House; Bridge & Benezett's house in Chestnut Street [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: Kennedy & Lucas Lith]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1830
Date [1830]
Physical Description 2 prints (1 sheet): lithograph; 23 x 14 cm. (9 x 5.75 in.)
Description Book illustration showing Clark's Inn also known as the State House Inn on the north side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street, and the residence of Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet at 325 Chestnut Street. Inn view includes a woman with a pail by a side door of the tavern, two male pedestrians, and neighboring buildings. Residence view includes the nearby bridge across Dock Creek. A pedestrian walks over the bridge as a manned rowboat emerges from under it. The Benezet residence built for David Breintnall circa 1700 was one of the first brick houses built in the city. The inn, built circa 1693, served as a respite for members of Congress and purportedly William Penn.
Notes Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 316.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 139
Gift of James Rush.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784 -- Homes and haunts.
Clark's Inn (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Taverns (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 325.
Genre Lithographs -- 1820-1830.
Book illustrations -- 1820-1830.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Residences - Benezet [9245.Q.27a&b]
Accession number 9245.Q.27a&b