Details
Creator French, John Taylor, 1822-1852, artist.
Contributor Smith, John Rubens, 1775-1849, artist.
Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title Friends' boarding school, West-town, PA. [graphic] / On stone by J.T. French.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith of T. Sinclair, 79 S. 3rd St
Date [ca. 1848]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand colored; 44 x 59 cm. (17.25 x 23 in.)
Description Exterior view after an 1840 painting by John Rubens Smith showing the main building and gardens with arbor. A dirt path with rail fence surrounds the property. In the foreground, two men lean on the fence and converse and a women with a basket strolls. In the background, men approach a horse-drawn wagon partially obscured by a stone outbuilding. Two men work in the garden and a figure is visible in the doorway of the building. Westtown was established in 1794 by the Society of Friends' as a boarding school for girls and boys.
Notes Sinclair was located at 79 S. 3rd Street 1840-1850.
Reproduction entitled "Westtown School, 1840" published in Watson W. and Sarah B. Dewees' History of Westtown Boarding School, 1799-1899 (Philadelphia: Press of Sherman & Co., 1899) opposite pg. 109.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 86
Westtown School Archives holds multiple copies.
Subject Westtown Boarding School.
Society of Friends -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Westtown.
Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania -- Westtown.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Education [7710.F]
Accession number 7710.F