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.
Title Moyamensing Prison. [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 prison built 1832-1835 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter at Tenth and Reed streets. A horse-drawn wagon used to carry convicts, known as a "Black Maria," travels in front of the Gothic-style building. Two men watch the carriage from near the road and two others are visible close to one of the battlement towers. The prison, which operated under a system of solitary confinement, was demolished 1968.
Is referenced by Wainwright 241.4
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadephia 126
Notes Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen.
Originally published as plate 9 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 492.4
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2097 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 19:23
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 Moyamensing Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Prisons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Reed Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1000 block.
Moyamensing (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Printer Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W241.4 [P.2097]
Accession number P.2097