Details
Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist.
Contributor Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856? printer.
Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, publisher.
Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Title U. S. Naval Asylum. [graphic] / Lith. of J.T. Bowen.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by J.T. Bowen at his Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment, 94, Walnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1848
Date c1840, 1848
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 14 x 18 cm. (5.25 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the U.S. Naval Asylum, the convalescence home for retired sailors built 1827-1833 after the designs of William Strickland at 2420 Gray’s Ferry Avenue. A small grove of trees adorns the yard in front of the colonnade portico entrance of the three-story building known as Biddle Hall. Two men with canes talk in front of the stone and iron-work fence protecting the property. Also shows, in the background, a sailboat on the Schuylkill River and the Blockley Almshouse, built 1833 in West Philadephia, also after the designs of Strickland. The asylum also served 1839-1845 as the first naval school under the administration of Commodore James Biddle.
Is referenced by Wainwright 410.4
Land & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 124
Notes Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen.
Originally published as plate 7 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 765.4
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2224 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Subject United States Naval Home, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Blockley Almshouse.
United States. Navy -- Buildings.
Rest homes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Almshouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Gray's Ferry Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2420.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Associated name Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Printer Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W410.4 [P.2224]
Accession number P.2224