Date supplied by Wainwright., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Advertisement showing dock and hotel of resort located on the southern end of Windmill Island, a summer resort area popular in the 19th century before the removal of the island in 1897. View shows a wide variety of river traffic including ferries, sailboats, rowboats, and sailing ships. View of New Jersey waterfront visible in background.
Creator
Haugg, Louis, artist., creator
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W007.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W7 [P.2003]
View, probably an artist's study for "Birch's Country Seats," depicting the Bucks County estate China Retreat, near the Delaware River , built in 1796 by former Resident Director of the East India Company in China, André Everadus Van Braam-Houckgeest. Sold by Van Braam in 1798, the estate passed through several owners, including Gabriel Manigault in 1807, and at various times housed Bristol College, a boarding house, and an orphan asylum for African American children. The mansion, the estate grounds severly diminished, was demolished in the mid 20th century. View includes cows drinking on the banks of the river and two men paddling a boat., Title from manuscript note on verso., Accompanied by scrap inscribed with manuscript note: Van Braam's Delaware River nearly opposite to Burlington. Afterward Penna Cottage., See William Snyder's "William Birch: His Country Seats of the United States" The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 81 (July 1957), p. 225-254., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook.
Creator
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, artist
Date
[ca. 1808]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department drawings & watercolors - Birch - Van Braam's China Retreat [P.8759.2]
Northeast view from the site of the Treaty Tree, the legendary location of William Penn's treaty with the Delaware Indians in 1682. Depicts a pier with docked boats; laborers, including shipbuilders, at work; and individuals relaxing, fishing, leading a horse, and strolling near a fenced property displaying the American flag. The Treaty Tree or Great Elm Tree blew down in 1810., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), Pl. 2., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, engraver
Date
[1828]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 2c/P.2276.4]
