Details
Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist.
Contributor Collins, John, fl. 1833-1869, printer.
Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Title Moyamensing Prison. Philadelphia. [graphic] / 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 in.)
Description View showing the prison built 1832-1835 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter at Tenth and Reed streets. A horse-drawn wagon used to carry convicts, known as a "Black Maria," travels in front of the Gothic-style building. Two men watch the carriage from near the road and two others are visible close to one of the battlement towers. The prison, which operated under a system of solitary confinement, was demolished 1968.
Is referenced by Wainwright 241.1
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadephia 126
See PMA, Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art 258
Notes Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier.
Issued as plate 9 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 492.1. Digital image shows fourth state of print.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: P. 2095 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 Moyamensing Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Prisons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Reed Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1000 block.
Moyamensing (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Associated name Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Printer Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W241.1 [P.2095]
Accession number W241-4
P.2095