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. North. [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; 22 x 32 cm. (8.38 x 12.63 in.) |
Description |
Panoramic view looking North toward North Philadelphia predominately showing the area north of Chestnut Street between the
Delaware River and 25th Street. Includes St. Augustine Church, 260-262 N. 4th Street (1); Girard College, 2000-2490 N. College
Avenue (2); Zion Church, 100 block N. 4th Street (3); Franklin Square, between Race, Vine, North Sixth, and North Franklin
streets (4); and Pennsylvania Hall, 100 block N. 6th Street (5). The north side of the 500 block (501-535) of Chestnut Street,
with several businesses, dominates the foreground. Includes the office of "City Resor..," "Eagle Hotel" (533), "Washington
Hall" (531), and "Woods Confectionary" (187, i.e., 523-525). Also shows the rooftops of several city blocks, the masts of
docked ships along the Delaware, rows of trees in front of the State House, and a figure in one of the doorway of the Chestnut
Street shops.
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Is referenced by |
Wainwright 265.1 |
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Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 138 |
Notes |
Plate 2 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 number 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.
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First state. |
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Key to 5 landmarks printed below the image. |
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Philadelphia on Stone |
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POS 542.b.1 |
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Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited. |
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Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2152 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson) |
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania: |
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Trimmed. |
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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.
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Subject |
Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Girard College. |
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St. Augustine's (Church : Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Zion--St. Michael's Lutheran Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Storefronts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
Geographic subject |
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block -- north side. |
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Franklin Square (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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North Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Pictorial works. |
Genre |
Panoramic views -- 1830-1840. |
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Lithographs -- 1830-1840. |
Printer |
Wild & Chevalier, publisher. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W265.1 [P.2152] |
Accession number |
P.2152 |