Details
Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 artist.
Contributor Wild & Chevalier, printer.
Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Title Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by J. C. Wild.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith. of Wild & Chevalier, 72 Dock St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1838
Date c1838
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 14 x 18 cm. (5.25 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the main gate of the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. A man on horseback rides past the cemetery in which the Gothic-style funerary chapel is visible in the background. Countryside and trees dominate the foreground.
Is referenced by Wainwright 216.1
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 137
Notes Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier.
Issued as plate 20 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 430.1. Digital image shows the third state of the print.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: LCP 6626.F and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F and Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson).
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W6442, pl. 8.
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Cemeteries (2 copies)
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 Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Chapels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Ridge Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3822.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Printer Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W216.1 [6626.F]
Accession number W216-3
6626.F