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Print (Etching)
Perspective View of the Country between Wilmington and the Delaware. Taken from the Hill S.W. of the Academy.
Charles Willson Peale
1787-1787
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator/Artist/Maker
Charles Willson Peale (Designer)
Place of Origin
Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Ink
- Watercolor
- Paper (laid)
Museum Object Number
1959.1387
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1959.1387
Object Name
Print (Etching)
Title
Perspective View of the Country between Wilmington and the Delaware. Taken from the Hill S.W. of the Academy.
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator (Role)
Charles Willson Peale (Designer)
Place of Origin
Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Date
1787-1787
Subject(s)
- Landscape
Materials
- Ink
- Watercolor
- Paper (laid)
Techniques
- Etched
- Hand colored
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
8.1 (H) x 15.1 (W) x 7.4 (Image H) x 14.5 (Image W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
20.6 (H) x 38.3 (W) x 18.7 (Image H) x 36.9 (Image W)
Measurement Notes
Plate H: 7.8 in. (19.7 cm). Plate W: 14.8 in. (37.5 cm). Chain interval: 2.6-2.8 cm; laid line frequency: 8 per cm. H and W at maximum.
Publisher Date
01/01/1787
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
Edition Watermark
Strasbourg arms with a lily, probably Dutch paper, c. 1782.
Edition Notes
Engraving published opposite page 351 in the Columbian Magazine (April, 1787).
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. 272, pp. 389-390.Article: Richardson, Edgar P. 1964 "Charles Willson Peale's Engravings in the Year of National Crisis, 1787,". Winterthur Portfolio. I: 178.
Book: Igoe, Laura Turner & Braddock, Alan C. 2017 A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia's Ecology in the Cultural Imagination.