Details
Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 artist.
Contributor Wild & Chevalier, printer.
Evans, David, Jr., fl. 1794-1806, architect.
Rhoads, Samuel, 1711-1784, architect.
Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Title Pennsylvania Hospital, 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, hand-colored; image 13.5 x 17.5 cm. (5.25 x 7 in.), on sheet 18 x 23 cm. (7 x 9.25 in.)
Description Exterior view of the hospital, located on Pine Street between 8th and 9th Streets, from the southeast. Street scene in foreground includes a carriage; a wagon; several riders on horseback including a woman riding side saddle; pedestrians; and a watchman's guardhouse. Designed by Samuel Rhoads and David Evans, Jr., the east wing of the hospital was constructed 1755, the west wing and center pavilion in the 1790s.
Is referenced by Wainwright 275
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 130
Notes Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier 1838.
Issued as plate 13 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 558.1. 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. 32-75.
Subject Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Pine Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 801-849.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Associated name Evans, David, Jr., fl. 1794-1806, architect.
Associated name Rhoads, Samuel, 1711-1784, architect.
Printer Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W275 [P.2160]
Accession number W275-3
P.2160