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]
Plate in architectural design book illustrating an Italianate mansion at the intersection of two roads in Gray's Ferry near Philadelphia. In the foreground, three boys fish in a stream that runs parallel to the property leading to the Schuylkill River in the background (left). An orchard occupies the land in front of the house, and farm land sprawls across the property behind the house. A team of two horses plows the farm land, and a sailboat is visible on the river in the distance., The lithography firm of Peter S. Duval operated as P.S. Duval & Co. from 1851-1857., Published in Samuel Sloan's The model architect. (Philadelphia: Published by E.S. Jones & Co. S.W. corner of Fourth & Race Sts., c1852), vol. II, plate I, design XXVII., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 243, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1852 Sloan (2)1382.F, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Farms
Creator
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date
[1852]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W376 [*Am 1852 Sloan (2)1382.F.opp10]
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]
