Details
Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 artist.
Title Alms House. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by J.C. Wild.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: Printed by J. Collins
Date [1838]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 15.5 x 19.5 cm. (6 x 7.75 in.)
Description Exterior view of the Blockley Alms House on the Schuylkill River from eastern bank including the Market Street Bridge, Beck's shot tower, and a distant view of Eastern State Penitentiary. Almshouse, designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland, was constructed in 1833.
Is referenced by Wainwright 14.1
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 125
Notes Issued as plate 8 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.
Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 14.1. Digital image shows fourth state of print.
Subject Blockley Almshouse.
Almshouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Associated name Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Printer Collins, John, printer.
Printer J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W14.1 [P.2008]
Accession number W14-4
P.2008