Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: View in Third Street, from Spruce Street Philadelphia.

Accession number: 
65-230
Record number: 
65-230-19
JCB call number: 
*D800 B617 / 1-SIZE (copy 2)
Image title: 
View in Third Street, from Spruce Street Philadelphia.
Creator 1: 
William Birch & son
Creator 1 role: 
Drawn, Engraved & Published by
Place image published: 
[Philadelphia]
Image publisher: 
William Birch & son
Image date: 
[1800]
Image function: 
plate [18]
Technique: 
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height: 
21.7 cm.
Image dimension width: 
28.5 cm.
Page dimension height: 
32.2 cm.
Page dimension width: 
40.7 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink, colors
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
View of a street with dwellings and a horse-drawn carriage.
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: 
William Bingham, a merchant and legislator, built the mansion at the left about 1788. It was damaged by a fire in 1823, repaired, and finally demolished around 1850.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
Visual categories: 
topographical views
References: 
Teitelman, S. R. Birch's Views of Philadelphia, plate 18; 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: 
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Pictorial works
Subject headings: 
Mansions