Details
Creator Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist.
Contributor Childs & Lehman printer.
Haviland, John, 1792-1852, architect.
Childs & Lehman, publisher.
Title Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. Near Philadelphia. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by G. Lehman; Childs & Inman Lithrs.
Publisher Philadelphia : Pubd. by C.G. Childs & G. Lehman
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1833
Date c1833
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 20 x 29 cm. (7.75 x 11.38 in.)
Description View looking past farmland showing the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two boys sit in a fenced pasture in which cows graze near sheds and an enclosed pond. Ducks swim on the pond. In the background, a farm is visible in front of the prison at which a carriage is parked and a man rides on horseback.
Is referenced by Wainwright 106
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 202
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 26 L 528.
Subject Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania.
Prisons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Farms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2101-2199.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Associated name Haviland, John, 1792-1852, architect.
Printer Childs & Lehman, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W106 [P.2042]
Accession number P.2042