Creator |
Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist. |
Contributor |
Wild & Chevalier, printer. |
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Wild & Chevalier, publisher. |
Title |
Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. West. [graphic] / Drawn from nature and on stone by J. C. Wild. |
Publisher |
Philadelphia: Lith. of Wild & Chevalier No. 72 Dock St |
Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1838 |
Date |
c1838 |
Physical Description |
1 print: lithograph on chine colle mounted on paper; 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); 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.
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Is referenced by |
Wainwright 267.1 |
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 view 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.
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First state. |
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Key to 15 landmarks printed below the image. |
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Upper right corner missing, including cited landmark "Waterman's Church." |
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Philadelphia on Stone |
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POS 542.d.2 |
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Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited. |
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Library Company of Philadelphia: *P.2155 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson) |
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania: |
Subject |
Cooke, Thomas. |
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Arcade Building (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Arch Street Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Blockley Almshouse. |
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Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Congress Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. |
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Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. |
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St. John the Evangelist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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St. Stephen's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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United States Naval Asylum (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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University of Pennsylvania |
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Walnut Street Theatre. |
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Circuses & shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
Geographic subject |
Independence Square (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Pictorial works. |
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Sixth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block. |
Genre |
Panoramic views -- 1830-1840. |
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Lithographs -- 1830-1840. |
Printer |
Wild & Chevalier, publisher. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W267.1 [P.2155] |
Accession number |
P.2155 |