Details
Creator J. & W. Ridgway.
Title Library Company Blue Plate.
Date Between 1814-1830
Physical Description 8 1/4 inches (diameter).
Is referenced by Camehl, Ada Walker. The Blue-China Book: Early American Scenes and History Pictured in the Pottery of the Time. New York: Dover Publications, 1971, p. 76-79.
Larsen, Ellouise Baker. American Historical Views on Staffordshire China. New York: Dover Publications, 1975, p. 92.
Coleman, William. The Pennsylvania Landscape: Colonial to Contemporary. Haverford: Haverford College, 2007, p. 27.
Notes Blue and white transferware, by J. & W. Ridgway, Shelton, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, between 1814 and 1830. Part of J. & W. Ridgway’s “Beauties of America Series.” Depicts the Library Company's 5th St. building surrounded by a border of medallions of roses and leaves.
Gift of Donald H. Cresswell, 1997.
Exhibited in Haverford College's exhibition, The Pennsylvania Landscape: Colonial to Contemporary (2007).
Subject Library Company of Philadelphia.
Genre Commemorative plate.
Location OBJ 607a
Accession number OBJ 607a