Details
Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist.
Contributor Collins, John, fl. 1833-1869, printer.
Evans, David, Jr., fl. 1794-1806, architect.
Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Hamilton, Andrew, ca. 1676-1741, architect.
Woolley, Edmund, ca. 1695-1771, architect.
Title State House. Philadelphia. [graphic] / J.C. Wild; on stone by J. C. Wild.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by J. Collins
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1838
Date c1838
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 14 x 18 cm. (5.25 x 7.25 in.)
Description Winter, evening scene looking southeast from Sixth and Chestnut streets toward the State House (Independence Hall) showing light pedestrian traffic. Pairs of men and women walk, converse, and cross the snow-covered street near Congress Hall and the intersection. A man and woman street vendor attend their stand near a watchman's house. Also shows City Hall (500 Chestnut) built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. in the background. The State House (520 Chestnut) was built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley and Congress Hall (540-558 Chestnut) was built 1787-1789.
Is referenced by Wainwright 352.1
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 128
Notes Artist's imprint lower left corner of stone.
Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier.
Issued as plate 11 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 720.1. Digital image shows fourth state of print.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2193 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Subject Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
City Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Congress Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
City & town halls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Street vendors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Associated name Evans, David, Jr., fl. 1794-1806, architect.
Associated name Hamilton, Andrew, ca. 1676-1741, architect.
Associated name Woolley, Edmund, ca. 1695-1771, architect.
Associated name Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W352.1 [P.2193]
Accession number W352-4
P.2193