High Street, from Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 1800

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored engraving on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 21.43 × 28.42 cm (8 7/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

sheet (trimmed): 25.4 × 28.42 cm (10 × 11 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.792

Artists / Makers

William Russell Birch (artist) American, 1755 - 1834

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Designed & Published by W. Birch Enamel Painter. 1800.; lower center in plate: HIGH STREET, from Ninth Street. PHILADELPHIA.; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: D7864

Provenance

(Parker Gallery, London, England); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1953; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Parker Gallery