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Library and Surgeons Hall, in Fifth Street Philadelphia [graphic] / Designed & Published by W. Birch Enamel Painter. 1800.

By:

Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834

Contributor(s):

Thornton, William, 1759-1828 [architect.]

Material type:

PictureSeries: City of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania North America; as it appeared in the year 1800. Second edition 1804 consisting of twenty copper platesPublication details: [Philadelphia]: W. Birch, [1804]; PA. Philadelphia. Edition: Second edition, plate 13Description: 1 print : engraving ; sheet 30 x 37 cm (12 x 14.75 in.)References: Snyder, City of Independence 217.References: Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views" 19b.Local Notes: Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited;
Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 19;
Part of the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom (PW-285234-22), 2023-2025.Local Added Entry - Personal Name: Thornton, William, 1759-1828, architect.Imprint: PA. Philadelphia. 1804.Subject(s):

Summary: View on Fifth Street above Walnut Street including the halls of the Library Company of Philadelphia (built 1790) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (built 1792). Depicts patrons entering and leaving the red brick Palladian library building; men and a boy playing dice on the sidewalk; a blacksmith working in his shop; and a man leading a horse-drawn cart down the street. The Library Company, established by Benjamin Franklin and his Junto in 1731, remained at the hall designed by Dr. William Thornton until 1880; the building razed in 1887. Surgeons or Anatomical Hall served as a lecture room and chemistry laboratory for the University's medical students until 1807.

List(s) this item appears in: Library Company Buildings : Graphic Materials

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 6 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Visual Material	Library Company of Philadelphia Graphic Arts Department	Graphic Arts - Philadelphia Artists, Photographers, Printers, and Publishers	Birch's views [Sn 19b/P.2276.44]	Available		132574

Total holds: 0

Snyder, City of Independence 217.

Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views" 19b.

View on Fifth Street above Walnut Street including the halls of the Library Company of Philadelphia (built 1790) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (built 1792). Depicts patrons entering and leaving the red brick Palladian library building; men and a boy playing dice on the sidewalk; a blacksmith working in his shop; and a man leading a horse-drawn cart down the street. The Library Company, established by Benjamin Franklin and his Junto in 1731, remained at the hall designed by Dr. William Thornton until 1880; the building razed in 1887. Surgeons or Anatomical Hall served as a lecture room and chemistry laboratory for the University's medical students until 1807.

Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.

Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 19.

Part of the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom (PW-285234-22), 2023-2025.