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Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist.
Contributor Wild & Chevalier, printer.
Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Title Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. East. [graphic] / Drawn from nature and on stone by J. C. Wild.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith. of Wild & Chevalier No. 72 Dock St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1838
Date c1838
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 22 x 32 cm. (8.5 x 12.63 in.)
Description Panoramic view looking toward the Delaware River predominately showing the area east of Fifth Street between Arch and South streets. Includes the Court House, i.e. City Hall, 500 Chestnut Street (1); Philadelphia Library, i.e., Library Company of Philadelphia, 105 S. 5th Street (2); U.S. Bank, i.e., Second Bank of the U.S., 420 Chestnut Street (3); Philadelphia Bank, 400-408 Chestnut Street (4); Girard Bank, 120 S. 3rd Street (5); Pennsylvania Bank, 134-136 S. 2nd Street (6); [Merchants'] Exchange, 143 S. 3rd Street (7) Christ Church, 22-34 N. 2nd Street (8); Smith's Island, Delaware River (9); and Camden (10) and Kaighn's Point (11) in New Jersey. Also shows part of the State House garden; the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street; the adjoined storefronts at 426-434 Chestnut Street; the "Our House" hotel, 408 Library Street; Military Hall, 412 Library Street; rooftop views of several of the surrounding city blocks; and a few pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage on the 400 block of Chestnut Street and the grounds of the State House.
Is referenced by Wainwright 264.1
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 138
Notes Plate one of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838.) Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year.
First state.
Key to 11 landmarks printed below the image.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 542.a.1
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2153 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)
Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Subject City Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Library Company of Philadelphia.
Merchants' Exchange (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Banks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block.
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Pictorial works
Camden (N.J.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Panoramic views -- 1830-1840.
Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Printer Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W264.1[P.2153]
Accession number P.2153