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 Manayunk near Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Published by J.T. Bowen at his Lithographic & Print Colouring Establmt., 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 Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854.
Is referenced by Wainwright 226.3
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadephia 135
Notes Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen.
Originally published as plate 18 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 455.3
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2094 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 Ripka, Joseph.
Textile industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Manayunk (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Printer Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W226.3 [P.2094]
Accession number P.2094