COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
65-230
Record number:
65-230-10
JCB call number:
*D800 B617 / 1-SIZE (copy 2)
Image title:
High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia
Creator 1:
William Birch & son
Creator 1 role:
Drawn, Engraved, & Published by
Place image published:
Philadelphia
Image publisher:
Sold by R. Campbell & Co. No: 30 Chesnut Street
Image date:
1799
Image function:
plate [9]
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
21.7 cm.
Image dimension width:
28.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
34 cm.
Page dimension width:
41 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
View of a street with barrows, horse-drawn carriage and cart. Built environment includes church and dwellings.
Source creator:
Birch, William & Son
Source Title:
The city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania North America: as it appeared in the Year 1800 consisting of twenty eight plates
Source place of publication:
[Philadelphia]
Source publisher:
Published by W. Birch, Springland Cot, near Neshaminy Bridge on the Bristol Road
Source date:
1800
notes:
The First Presbyterian Church was built between 1793 and 1794 from designs by John Trumbull and demolished about 1822. High Street was also called Market Street because of the sheds seen to the left of this image. The name Market Street was made official by an ordinance of 1858, a year before the market sheds were ordered to be removed.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Visual categories:
topographical views
References:
Teitelman, S. R. Birch's Views of Philadelphia, plate 9; Snyder, M.P. "William Birch," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 73, p. 271-315
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1965.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Presbyterian church buildings--Pennsylvania
Subject headings:
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Pictorial works