Photo, Print, Drawing Girard College.
About this Item
Title
- Girard College.
Summary
- This lithograph shows a view of Founder's Hall at Girard College in Philadelphia, which was constructed in 1833--47 from designs by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter. The hall occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenue at Corinthian Avenue. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans. The illustration is by John Caspar Wild (circa 1804--46), a Swiss-born artist and lithographer, who arrived in Philadelphia from Paris in 1832. He produced paintings and prints of Philadelphia and other American cities, including Cincinnati, Saint Louis, and Davenport, Iowa. His works are important historical records of these cities before the era of large-scale industrialization and rapid urban growth.
Names
- Philadelphia Saturday Courier Associated Name.
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), circa 1804-1846 Artist.
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : Lithography of Wild & Chevalier, 1838.
Headings
- - United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- - 1838
- - Girard College
- - Lithographs
- - Neoclassicism (Architecture)
- - Orphans
- - Poor persons
- - Schools
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Issued as one of two annual "pictorial illustrations" for the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.|Digital catalog number: POS 311.1"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 21.5 x 30 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
- - Content in English.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Philadelphia on Stone
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021670169
Online Format
- compressed data
- image