Object Number 1975.0244

Object Name

Print (Lithograph)

Title

the CASTLE of the STATE in SCHUYLKILL.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Claneil Foundation

Creator (Role)

Moses Swett (Designer and draftsman)
1804-1838

Pendleton, Kearney & Childs (Lithographer)
1829
References: Last, The Color Explosion, p. 120-1. Pendleton, Kearney & Childs was the second commercial lithography firm founded in Philadelphia (Kennedy & Lucas was the first in 1828).

John S. Skinner (Publisher)
1788-1851

Place of Origin

Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Origin Notes

Book published by Skinner in Maryland.

Secondary Place of Origin

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

Secondary Origin Notes

Pendleton, Kearney & Childs produced lithograph in Philadelphia.

Date

1820-1840

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left; from Nature & on stone by M. Swett.
2. Inscription; Lower right; Printed by P.K. & C. Philad.\a

Subjects

Book illustration; Building view; Landscape

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Lithography

Dimensions (inches)

8.2 (H) , 9.1 (W) , 4.4 (Image H) , 6.6 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

20.8 (H) , 23 (W) , 4.4 (Image H) , 6.6 (Image W)

Publisher Summary

Skinner, John S.

Place of Publication

Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Published in an unidentified issue of: "American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine." (Baltimore: John S. Skinner, 1829-1844, 15 vols.).

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. 241, p. 347.