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Print (Etching)
The ACCIDENT in LOMBARD-STREET/ PHILAD.\A 1787.
Charles Willson Peale
1787
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator/Artist/Maker
Charles Willson Peale (Designer, etcher, and publisher)
Place of Origin
Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Ink
- Paper (laid)
Museum Object Number
1962.0088 A
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase with funds provided by Caroline Clendenin Ryan Foundation, Inc.
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Object Number
1962.0088 A
Object Name
Print (Etching)
Title
The ACCIDENT in LOMBARD-STREET/ PHILAD.\A 1787.
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator (Role)
Charles Willson Peale (Designer, etcher, and publisher)
Place of Origin
Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Date
1787
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Inscription
Location: Bottom center
Inscription: designed & engrav'd by CW Peale
Mark/Signature: Yes
Subject(s)
- Genre scene
Materials
- Ink
- Paper (laid)
Techniques
- Etched
Dimensions (inches)
8.2 (H) x 11.8 (W) x 7.3 (Image H) x 11.1 (Image W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
20.9 (H) x 30 (W) x 18.5 (Image H) x 28.3 (Image W)
Measurement Notes
H at left. W at bottom. No plate marks. Chain intervals: 2.7-2.9 cm; 8 laid lines per cm.
Publisher Summary
C. Peale
Publisher Date
01/01/1787
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
Publisher Name
C. Peale
Edition Watermark
none
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Swan, Susan Burrows. 1977 Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850.
• Published: p. 36.Book: Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 237, pp. 432-43.Book: Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 13, pp. 62-63.Book: Miller, Lillian B. 1996 The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy 1770-1870.
• Published: p. 149.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. 36, p. 22.Book: Snyder, Martin P. 1975 City of Independence: Views of Philadelphia Before 1800.
• Print listed as no. 71, see pp. 136-146.Article: Sellers, Charles Coleman. 1952 "Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 42 (1)
• See pp. 238-239.Book: Igoe, Laura Turner & Braddock, Alan C. 2017 A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia's Ecology in the Cultural Imagination.