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 View from the inclined plane, near Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone 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 View looking east down the inclined plane cut into Belmont Hill (Fairmount Park) for the hauling of railroad cars in Philadelphia on route to the steam locomotives to Columbia on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Shows two men watching cars being hauled by ropes from within the plane. The covered Columbia Railroad Bridge, completed in 1834 over the Schuylkill River, from which the plane leads up, is visible in the background. Also shows distant cityscape, and forestry. The plane was abandoned in 1850.
Is referenced by Wainwright 145.3
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 121
Notes Originally published as plate 4 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.
Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 286.3. Digital image shows fourth 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 Reading Company.
Inclined planes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Columbia Railroad Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Printer Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W145.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]
Accession number W145-4
Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)