Details
Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist.
Contributor Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, printer.
Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, publisher.
Title Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House Steeple. South. [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 south toward the Delaware River predominately showing the area between Independence Square, the river, and about 8th Street. Includes the Navy Yard at Southwark (1); Shot Tower, 2nd and Carpenter streets (2); Philadepha. C. Prison, i.e., Moyamensing Prison, 1000 block of Reed Street; Albert Barnes Church, i.e., First Presbyterian Church, 626-630 Locust Street (4); Penna. Hospital, 801-849 Pine Street (5); Washington Square, between Sixth, Eighth, Walnut and Spruce streets (6); and Independence Square (7). Also shows visitors on the grounds of Independence Square, the 500 block of the south side of Walnut Street, including a horse-drawn dray, and the rooftops of several city blocks.
Is referenced by Wainwright 266.2
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 138
Notes Plate 4 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.
Second state.
Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen. LCP copies lacking copyright statement.
Key to 7 landmarks printed below the image.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 542.c.2
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: *8236.F.3 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)
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.
Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver.
Subject Moyamensing Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Geographic subject Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block -- south side.
Washington Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Independence Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Spark's Shot Tower (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Panoramic views -- 1830-1840.
Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Printer Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W266.2 [8236.F.3]
Accession number 8236.F.3