Plate in architectural design book illustrating a perspective view of a symmetrical, Italian-style, suburban mansion on the edge of Rittenhouse Square built 1855-1857 for Joseph Harrison, Jr. after designs by Samuel Sloan. Pedestrian traffic, including two gentlemen on horseback, a man and woman walking, and a horse-drawn carriage, pass in front of the mansion near the square in the foreground., Published in Samuel Sloan's city and suburban architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 107, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 641, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.107, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb16 H32., Atwater Kent Museum: 440.14.103.1
Creator
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date
[1867]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W309 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.107]
Plate in architectural design book illustrating the front facade of a symmetrical, Italian-style, suburban mansion on the edge of Rittenhouse Square built 1855-1857 for Joseph Harrison, Jr. after designs by Samuel Sloan., Published in Samuel Sloan's City and suburban architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 108, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 642, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb16 H32., Free Library of Philadelphia: 724.3 SL52C, Atwater Kent Museum: 40.14.103.2/16 and 45.23.17
Creator
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date
[1867]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W310 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.108]
Shows the rear of the mansion with garden of locomotive engineer and inventor Joseph Harrison, Jr. built 1855-1857 after the designs of Samuel Sloan at 221-225 South 18th Street near Rittenhouse Square. Razed 1925., Title and photographer from accompanying label., Manuscript note on verso: J. Harrison - [Reside]nce 18th bel Wal[nut]., Buff paper mount with square corners., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 29., Arcadia caption text: Joseph Harrison, Jr., whose mansion appears at the center of the view opposite, conceived of the lot behind his home extending the entire width of the block as a private park to be shared by Harrison and the inhabitants of the elegant row he constructed along Locust Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Street (see image below). This view of the garden, with its collection of ornamental shrubs and winding carriage road, also provides an unusual glimpse of the charming architectural features at the back of the mansion including the conservatory, the balcony, and the back gate., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Coates, Andrew, photographer
Date
ca. 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Coates - Residences [(8)1322.F.19b]
