Details
Creator Breton, William L., artist.
Contributor Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography, printer.
Title Penn's landing at Essex House, Chester. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: Kennedy & Lucas Lith]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1830
Date [1830]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 23 x 14 cm. (9 x 5.75 in.)
Description Book illustration showing the reception of the William Penn landing party arriving ashore at Upland, renamed Chester, from the ship "Welcome" in October 1682. A couple, Robert and Lydia Wade, walks from the Essex House, the residence of Wade, toward the party. Cows graze nearby. Also includes a partial view of Penn's ship. The residence and temporary home for Penn, was situated near the intersection of Chester Creek and the Delaware River. Penn moored his ship at Chester, and arrived in Philadelphia via a barge upriver.
Notes Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 117.
Manuscript note on recto: a different plate from that of the book.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 163
Gift of James Rush.
Subject Wade, Robert -- Homes and haunts.
Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Chester.
Arrivals & departures -- Pennsylvania -- Chester.
Ships -- Pennsylvania -- Chester.
Geographic subject Chester (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1820-1830.
Book illustrations -- 1820-1830.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Events [9245.Q.10]
Accession number 9245.Q.10