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Shippen's House, So. Second Street.; First Christ Church, Philada. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A64836
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Creator
Breton, William L., artist.
Contributor
Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography, printer.
Title
Shippen's House, So. Second Street.; First Christ Church, Philada. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1830
Physical Description
2 prints (1 sheet): lithograph; 22 x 15 cm. (8.75 x 6 in.)
Description
View showing the residence, near Dock Creek, purchased in 1693 by the second mayor of Philadelphia Edward Shippen. Dwelling includes a fenced side yard. Pedestrians, including a woman and child, walk on the sidewalk. Also shows a grove of trees and surrounding buildings.
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 694a&b
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Gift of James Rush.
Subject
Shippen, Edward, 1639-1712 -- Homes and haunts.
Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Episcopal churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 22-34.
Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1820-1830.
Book illustrations -- 1820-1830.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Residences [9245.Q.28a&b]
Accession number
9245.Q.28a&b
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
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