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Robert Wood's railing, architectural & ornamental iron works, Ridge Road below Spring Garden St., Philadelphia. [graphic] / R. F. Reynolds, del.
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Creator
Reynolds, Robert F., artist.
Contributor
Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Title
Robert Wood's railing, architectural & ornamental iron works, Ridge Road below Spring Garden St., Philadelphia. [graphic] / R. F. Reynolds, del.
Publisher
Philadelphia : Wagner & McGuigan lith. 4 Franklin Place
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1851
Date
[ca. 1851]
Physical Description
1 print : lithograph, tinted with two stones ; 53 x 68 cm. (21 x 27 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing the long three-story, brick factory occupied by Robert Wood's iron works at 1126 Ridge Avenue. The central portion of the building looms a few feet over the wings, and is adorned by tall, narrow windows on the second story, with a decorative cornice topped by a statue, bell cupola, and advertising flag. Statues of a lion and two dogs adorn an overhang near the open doorway of the iron foundry inside this central portion, under which a man and woman enter the office and warerooms. Visible inside the factory are several men at a forge, along with laborers working in the left and right wings. A man driving a horse-drawn company carriage emerges from the right wing. Four laborers load a lion statue into a cart on Ridge Avenue. Several boxes, addressed to "Mobile, Aa.," "Havana," "Jackson," "San Francisco, Ca.," "Smith & Co., St. Louis," "Cincinnati, Oo.," "Jones & Co., New Orleans," are scattered in the street nearby. Two laborers load (or unload) an iron railing from a covered cart in the foreground. Men working outdoors with unidentified piles, and additional brick factory buildings are visible in the background. A trompe-l'œil frame border surrounds the image.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 317
Notes
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 655
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject
Wood, Robert.
Iron-works -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Architectural decorations & ornaments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Trompe l'oeil prints -- 1850-1860.
Geographic subject
Ridge Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1126.
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W317 [P.2253]
Accession number
P.2253
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