Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story storefront at 215, i.e., 349 North Third Street that the dealer tenanted 1837-1874. Within the store, visible through the open doorways, a clerk assists a patron. Shelves of porcelain and glassware lining the walls surround the men. Additional porcelain and glassware, including plates, serving trays, tureens, and pitchers are piled on the floor, fill the central display window, and are exhibited outside near the open cellar to the store. In the street, a laborer unloads large hampers from a horse-drawn a dray. Also shows a large model teapot adorning the front facade of the building., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Third Street. Oct. 1846., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 402, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 E53.
Creator
Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date
[October 1846]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W196 [P.2061]
