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Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist.
Contributor Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?
Title Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House Steeple. West. [graphic] / Drawn from nature and on stone by J. C. Wild.
Publisher Philadelphia : [J.T. Bowen]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1838
Date c1838
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 22 x 32 cm. (8.38 x 12.38 in.)
Description Panoramic view looking west toward West Philadelphia past the Schuykill River predominately showing the area between Arch Street and Gray's Ferry Avenue. Includes U.S. Naval Asylum, 2420 Gray's Ferry Avenue (1); [Blockley] Alms House, S. 34th and Pine streets (2); Peale's Museum, 100 block S. 9th Street (3); Walnut Street Theatre, 827-833 Walnut Street (4); Cook's Circus, i.e., Thomas Cooke's equestrian circus, 800 block of Chestnut Street (5); St. John's Church, i.e., St. John the Evangelist Church, 23-25 S. 13th Street (6); St. Stephen's Church, 19 S. 10th Street (7); University of Pennsylvania, Ninth Street below Market Street (8); [Beck's] Shot Tower, 21st and Cherry streets (9); Inst. for the Blind, 200 block Race Street (10); Water Works, Fairmount (11); [Thomas T.] Waterman's Church, i.e., Arch Street Presbyterian Church, 1006 Arch Street (12); East. Penitentiary, 2100-2199 Fairmount Avenue (13); Arcade, 615-619 Chestnut Street (14); and Chestnut St. Theatre, 603-609 Chestnut Street (15). Also shows part of Independence Square, Congress Hall, Marshall House hotel (625-631), residences on the 100 block of S. 6th Street, and the rooftops of several city blocks.
Is referenced by Wainwright 267.2
Notes Plate 3 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year.
Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen. LCP copies lacking copyright statement.
Second state.
Partial key to 8 of 15 landmarks (1-4, 8-12) printed below the image. Copy trimmed.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 542.d.2
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: *8236.F.4 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W 6441 front
Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver.
Subject Cooke, Thomas.
Arcade Building (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Arch Street Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Blockley Almshouse.
Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Congress Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania.
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind.
St. John the Evangelist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
St. Stephen's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
United States Naval Asylum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
University of Pennsylvania
Walnut Street Theatre.
Circuses & shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Beck's Shot Tower (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Geographic subject Independence Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Sixth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block.
Genre Panoramic views -- 1830-1840.
Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Printer Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W267.2 [8236.F.4]
Accession number 8236.F.4
8236.F.4