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On Display: House - Belle Isle Stair Hall, Upper
Print (Etching)
AN EAST PROSPECT OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA; taken by GEORGE HEAP from the JERSEY SHORE, under the direction of NICOLAS SKULL Surveyor General of the PROVINCE of PENNSYLVANIA.
Heap and Scull, Gerard Vandergucht, Nicholas Scull
September 1 1754 (1754-1754)
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator/Artist/Maker
Heap and Scull (Surveyor and draftsman)
Place of Origin
London; London; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Ink
- Paper (laid)
Museum Object Number
1959.2155 A
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Complete Details
Object Number
1959.2155 A
Object Name
Print (Etching)
Title
AN EAST PROSPECT OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA; taken by GEORGE HEAP from the JERSEY SHORE, under the direction of NICOLAS SKULL Surveyor General of the PROVINCE of PENNSYLVANIA.
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator (Role)
Heap and Scull (Surveyor and draftsman); Gerard Vandergucht (Etcher); Nicholas Scull (Publisher)
Place of Origin
London; London; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Origin Notes
Published and printed in London, although Scull (living in Philadelphia) is often credited as the publisher.
Date
September 1 1754 (1754-1754)
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Inscription
Location: Top right, end of title
Inscription: ...taken by GEORGE HEAP...under the direction of NICHOLAS SKULL...
Type: Inscription
Location: Bottom right beneath text
Inscription: Published according to Act of Parliament, Sep.\btr 1.\st 1754
Type: Inscription
Location: Lower left, at bottom right in inset
Inscription: G. Vandergucht Sculp.
Mark/Signature: Yes
Subject(s)
- City view
- Armorial device
Materials
- Ink
- Paper (laid)
Techniques
- Etched
- Engraved
- Hand colored
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
24.7 (H) x 83.1 (W) x 20.9 (Image H) x 82.9 (Image W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
62.7 (H) x 211 (W) x 53.2 (Image H) x 210.6 (Image W)
Measurement Notes
Measurements of left sheet (measurements variable between sheets). H at left. W at bottom. Trimmed within plate marks. Image W of left sheet: 20.4 in. (51.9 cm). Chain intervals: 2.6-2.9 cm; 8 laid lines per cm.
Publisher Summary
N. Scull
Publisher Date
09/01/1754
Place of Publication
London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Publisher Name
N. Scull
Edition State
I
Edition Watermark
Countermark of "IV" on each sheet
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 6, pp. 48-49.Book: Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 23, pp. 70-71.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 fall meeting of the Walpole Society selected from the collection of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. 99 p.
• Published: no. 19, p. 18.Book: Snyder, Martin P. 1975 City of Independence: Views of Philadelphia Before 1800.
• See Snyder 17, pp. 42-44.Article: Wainwright, Nicholas B. 1949 "Scull and Heap's East Prospect of Philadelphia". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 73: 16-25.
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 99.