Object Number 1960.0358.002

Object Name

Print (Line engraving)

Title

SOUTH FRONT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

Samuel Seymour (Engraver)-1822

William Strickland (Draftsman)
1787-04/07/1854
References: Appleton's Cyclopedia; Agnes Addison Gilchrist, William Strickland: Architect and Engineer, 1788-1854 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950).

Place of Origin

Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1805-1820

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right, beneath image; Sam.\l Seymour A.A. sculp.\t
2. Inscription; Lower left, beneath image; W.\m Strickland F.S.A. del.\t

Subjects

Building view

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Engraved, Etched, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

13.3 (H) , 18.1 (W) , 9.8 (Image H) , 16.7 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

33.8 (H) , 46.1 (W) , 9.8 (Image H) , 16.7 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate H: 11.5 in. (29.3 cm). Plate W: 18.0 in. (45.8 cm). H at left. W at bottom.

Watermark

none

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 285, pp. 404-405.
[Book] Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. & The Walpole Society. 1963 Prints pertaining to America: a list of publications in English, relating to prints about that portion of America now included in the United States with emphasis on the period 1650-1850: and a checklist of prints in an exhibition to commemorate the 1962. 99 p.
• Published: no. 62, p. 32.
[Book] Stauffer, David McNeely. 1907 American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel.
• Print listed as no. 2881.