View of the active business-lined street containing the "New Jersey" Market terminus, named for its central location to the ferries from New Jersey, the city's main provider of farm produce. Several marketers and pedestrians, including African Americans, stroll the streets, sidewalks, and under the market shed designed with cupola and clock. Peddlers sell their goods from carts on Front Street. Built in 1822, the market operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859., Title from item., Copyright statement printed on recto: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1840 by J.T. Brown in the Clerk's Office of the Dt Ct for the En Dt of Pa., Originally published as plate 14 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 457.2. Digital image shows third state of the print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, See Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and his Philadelphia views," Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 87 (January 1953), p. 32-53., Gift of Dr. James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator
Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846, artist
Date
1838
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W227.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]
