Details
Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist.
Contributor Wild & Chevalier, printer.
Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Title University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by J.C. Wild.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: Lith. of Wild & Chevalier, 72 Dock St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1838
Date [1838]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 18 x 23.5 cm. (7 x 9.25 in.)
Description Exterior view of the University's twin buildings, Medical Hall and College Hall, located on the west side of 9th Street between Market and Chestnut Streets. Designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland and constructed 1829-1830, the buildings housed the University until its removal to West Philadelphia in the 1870s. View includes a group of students gathered in a doorway, and several pedestrians including two women carrying parasols.
Is referenced by Wainwright 419.1
Deak 482
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 132
Phillips 411
Notes Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier in 1838.
Issued as plate 15 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 in 1838, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 782.1. Digital image shows third state of print.
Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Subject University of Pennsylvania.
Universities & colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Ninth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 000 block.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand colored -- 1830-1840.
Associated name Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Printer Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W419 [P.2230]
Accession number W419-3
P.2230