Details
Creator Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist.
Contributor Rosienkiewicz, Martin, artist.
Lehman & Duval Lithrs., printer.
Title Portico Square. [graphic] / M. Rosienkiewicz, del.; on stone by George Lehman.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lehman & Duval Lithrs
Date [1837]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 7 x 17 cm. (2.5 x 6.75 in.)
Description View of the brick rowhouses also known as Portico Row built 1833-1835 after the designs of Thomas U. Walter at 900-930 Spruce Street. Tenants of the row included the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (1836-1841), commodore Isaac Hull (1842-1843), and author Sarah Josepha Hale (1859-1861). Also shows surrounding dwellings north and south of Spruce Street.
Is referenced by Wainwright 297
Notes Variant published as frontispiece to Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (Philadelphia, 1837).
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 617
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook.
Trimmed.
Biographical / historical note Rosienkiewicz was the professor of drawing and painting at the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies.
Subject Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies.
Row houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Spruce Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 900-930.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Associated name Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Provenance: Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W297 [(1)1525.F.47g]
Accession number (1)1525.F.47g