Object Number 1959.1385 A

Object Name

Print (Etching)

Title

An East Perspective View of the CITY of PHILADELPHIA, in the PROVINCE of PENNSYLVANIA, in NORTH AMERICA; taken from the JERSEY Shore.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Carington Bowles (Publisher and seller)
1724-1793
Carington Bowles (1724-1793) was trained by his father John Bowles (1701-1779) and they traded together from 1754 to 1764 as John Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill. John's brother, Thomas Bowles (1695 or 1712-1767), had a similar business in St. Paul's Churchyard, which Carington took over in 1764 when his uncle retired. Carington and John then began trading separately under their own names. Carington was succeeded by his son Henry Carington Bowles (1763-1830), who printed under the name Bowles and Carver. John was succeeded by Robert Wilkinson.

Heap and Scull (Surveyor and draftsman)
1752-1752
Heap and Scull formed a partnership for the publication of A Map of Philadelphia (published June 4, 1752); it lasted until Heap's death later that same year.

John Carwitham (Etcher)

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

January 1 1778 (1778-1778)

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Bottom left; Engraved from the Original Drawing sent over from/ Philadelphia, in the possession of Carington Bowles.
2. Inscription; Bottom center; Printed for and Sold by CARINGTON BOWLES, at his Map & Print Warehouse, N.\o 69 in S.\t Pauls Church Yard, LONDON. Publish'd as the Act directs

Subjects

City view

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Etched, Engraved, Hand colored, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

13.4 (H) , 19.1 (W) , 9.6 (Image H) , 16.3 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

34 (H) , 48.6 (W) , 9.6 (Image H) , 16.3 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H taken 1¼" from left. W taken 1¾" from bottom. Plate H: 10.9 in. (27.7 cm). Plate W: 16.9 in. (42.9 cm). Chain intervals: 2.8-2.9 cm; 8 laid lines per cm.

Publisher Summary

Bowles, Carington

Publication Date

01/01/1778

Place of Publication

No. 69, St. Pauls Church Yard, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Watermark

I VILLEDARY

Coloring

Hand colored with watercolors

Edition Notes

Unrecorded state from first issue, four other states known. This impression differs from the four states recorded by Snyder (100, 100A-C) and it is not known where it belongs in relation to those states. Similar to Syder 100B, this impression lacks "38" printed to left of title, but retains the publication date and reference to Bowles' ownership of the original drawing.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 9, pp. 54-5.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 24, pp. 72-3.
[Book] Lane, Christopher W. & Cresswell, Donald H. 1990 Prints of Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Print Shop, featuring the Wohl Collection.
• See no. 13, p. 20.
[Book] Snyder, Martin P. 1975 City of Independence: Views of Philadelphia Before 1800.
• See Snyder 100, 100A-C, pp. 119-21.
[Book] Déak, Gloria-Gilda. 1998 Picturing America, 1497-1899: prints, maps and drawings bearing on the New World discoveries and on the development of the territory that is now part of the United States. 2 vols.
• See Déak 101.
[Thesis] Wood, Mary Catherine Lee. 2007 Statuary at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and a community with a mission. M.A. University of Delaware
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