Watercolor of the front façade of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities’ office building constructed in 1859 at 304 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Shows the two-story building with a sign above the front entrance that reads, “304.” Signs in windows to the left and right of the entrance advertise the Company’s name. Two men stand on the front steps and converse, and several pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. The Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities was founded in 1812. In 1872, it was renamed as the Pennsylvania Company for Banking and Trust. The firm merged with the Bank of North America and Trust Company in 1929. The Company occupied the building at 304 Walnut Street, Philadelphia from 1859 to 1873., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower center., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., George Emerick Essig (1838-1923), a Philadelphia-born painter, watercolorist, and etcher, specialized in marine scenes, particularly of the New Jersey coast. He exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1876 to 1888.
Creator
Essig, George Emerick, 1838-1923, artist
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.8]
View looking north from below Walnut Street showing the 100 block of Broad Street, Philadelphia, including the Dundas-Lippincott Mansion built in 1839 for banker James Dundas after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter at 1335 Walnut Street. Shows, in the right, the front façade of the mansion with a portico and surrounded by a wall and a wrought iron fence. Also shows several trees lining the sidewalks and growing on the enclosed property of the mansion. Pedestrians walk in front of and around the residence, and horse-drawn carriages travel down the streets. The mansion, also called the “Yellow Mansion,” passed to Dundas' niece, Agnes Dundas-Lippincott, upon his death in 1865, and stayed in the family until razed around 1905., Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator
McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date
1939
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.10]
