Details
Creator Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist.
Contributor Kennedy & Lucas, printer.
Holden, Thomas, publisher.
Powell, Samuel, 1673?-1756, builder.
Title The old court house & Friend's Meeting. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : [Kennedy & Lucas]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1833
Date [1833]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 17 x 10.5 cm. (6.75 x 4.25 in.)
Description Book illustration showing the courthouse (built 1707 by carpenter Samuel Powell) and meeting house known as Market Street Meeting House (erected 1695, rebuilt 1775-1776) on North Second Street above Market Street. Also shows pedestrian traffic. Courthouse was utilized as the town hall, seat of the Legislature, market house, and the Pennsylvania statehouse until Independence Hall was opened in 1748. Building demolished in 1837.
Notes Plate opposite page 166 in John F. Watson's Historic tales of olden time : concerning the early settlement and progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania ; for the use of families and schools ; illustrated with plates (Philadelphia : E. Littell : Thomas Holden, 1833).
William L. Breton and Kennedy & Lucas created many of the lithographic plates for Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, so it is probable that they also created the plates in Historic tales of olden time.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 521/522
Subject Market Street Meeting House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Friends' meeting houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Courthouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 000 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Book illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Associated name Powell, Samuel, 1673?-1756, builder.
Printer Holden, Thomas, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Am 1833 Wat [Log 2794.D.opp166]
Accession number Log 2794.D.opp166