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Birch, Thomas |
Date |
1779- January 3, 1851 |
Description |
Thomas Birch, son of prominent English-born engraver William Birch, born in England in 1779, was a respected Philadelphia
maritime painter whose work was issued as lithographs from the 1830s to 1850.
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Lithographs include "View of the United States Naval Hospital at Norfolk, Va." (Childs & Inman, ca. 1832); "Capture of H.M.
Ships Cyane & Levant" (P.S. Duval, ca. 1850); and a S. A. & A. F. Ward "Spring & Summer 1846" fashion plate printed by Thomas
Sinclair containing his view of Cape May
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About 1835, Philadelphia lithographers Childs & Lehman also issued the allegorical temperance print "'Look Upon this Picture
and on This.' Intemperance and Temperance" after an 1826 sketch, including the Fairmount Water Works, by Birch.
Birch lived in Center City during much of his career, including addresses at 25 North Fourth Street (1825); 14 Filbert Street
(1835); 100 Union Street (1845); and in 1850 at 77 Lombard Street in Southwark (Ward 1) with his second wife Sarah (b. ca.
1799). Birch also had two children a daughter (b. 1808) and son, auctioneer Thomas, Jr. (b. 1812). He died on January 3, 1851.
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Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
References |
See also Childs & Inman; Childs & Lehman; Duval, P. S.; and Sinclair, Thomas. |
Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850 |
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Groce & Wallace, 51 |
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Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
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Peters, 95 |
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WWWAA, 322 |
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"Birch, Thomas," Artist Biographies, http://www.harrisantiques.com/ |
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"Birch, Thomas," AskArt, http://www.askart.com/ |