Details
Creator Smith, Benjamin F., Jr., 1830-1927, artist.
Contributor Michelin, Francis, 1809 or 10-1878, printer.
J.W. Hill & Smith,. artist.
Smith, Francis, 1823-1908, publisher.
Title Philadelphia from Girard College - 1850 [graphic] / J.W. Hill & Smith, del.; lith. par B.F. Smith Jr.; Printed in tints by F. Michelin.
Publisher [New York]: Francis Smith
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1850
Date c1850
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with two stones, framed; 59 x 99 cm. (23.25 x 39.5 in.)
Description Panoramic view looking south from above Girard College (2000-2490 North College Avenue) showing the city to South Philadelphia. Shows the boy's school predominately featured in the foreground. At the center, Founder's Hall looms. Several visitors walk around the building and a number partake of the vista from the roof. Boys walk and play near the eastern and western outbuildings and a woman hangs wash on a clothesline in one of the courtyards. Near the campus, pasture land and scattered development, including a church, is visible. In the background, blocks of buildings, industrial smokestacks, and church steeples comprise the cityscape. Also shows the Market Street Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River and Blockley Almshouse in West Philadelphia in the right of the image. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans.
Is referenced by Reps 3579
Lane and Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 167
Notes Copyrighted by Francis Smith in Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 585
LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #69.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
The Smith brothers, Benjamin, Francis, David and George, were premier and prolific artists and publishers of panoramic city views during the pre-Civil War era.
Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Views - Philadelphia from Girard
Subject Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania.
Girard College -- Buildings.
Orphans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject College Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 2000-2490.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1840-1850.
Panoramic views -- 1840-1850.
Printer Smith, Francis, 1823-1908, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Third floor storage - Rack 7a [7633.F]
Accession number 7633.F