Details
Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist.
Contributor Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887 artist.
Collins, John, printer.
Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Title The Girard College, Philadelphia. [graphic] / T.U. Walter. delt.; on stone by J.C. Wild.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: Printed by J. Collins
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1838
Date [1838]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 15.5 x 19.5 cm. (6 x 7.75 in.)
Description Exterior view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans.
Is referenced by Wainwright 379.1
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 122
Notes Issued as plate 5 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 304.1. Digital image shows fourth 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 Girard College -- Buildings.
Orphans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject College Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 2000-2490.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Printer Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W379 [P.2209]
Accession number W379-4
P.2209