Details
Creator Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 artist.
Contributor Wild & Chevalier, printer.
Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Title View from the inclined plane, near Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by J. C. Wild.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lith of Wild & Chevalier, 72 Dock St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1838
Date c1838
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 25 x 34 cm. (9.75 x 13.25 in.)
Description View looking east down the inclined plane cut into Belmont Hill (Fairmount Park) for the hauling of railroad cars in Philadelphia on route to the steam locomotives to Columbia on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Shows two men watching cars being hauled by ropes from within the plane. The covered Columbia Railroad Bridge, completed in 1834 over the Schuylkill River, from which the plane leads up, is visible in the background. Also shows distant cityscape, and forestry. The plane was abandoned in 1850.
Is referenced by Wainwright 145.2
Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 121
Notes Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier.
Issued as plate 4 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 286.2. Digital image shows fourth state of print.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: 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. 32-75.
Subject Reading Company.
Inclined planes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Columbia Railroad Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Printer Wild & Chevalier, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W145.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)]
Accession number W145-4
Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)