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 Manayunk near Philadelphia. [graphic] / Painted by J. C. Wild.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: J. T. Bowen
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1838
Date c1838
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 25 x 34 cm. (9.75 x 13.25 in.)
Description Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854.
Is referenced by Wainwright 226.2
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadephia 135
Notes Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen.
Originally published as plate 18 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 455.2. Digital image shows third state of print.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: 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.
Subject Ripka, Joseph.
Textile industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Manayunk (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Printer Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W226.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]
Accession number W266-3
Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)