Pennsylvania Hospital, in Pine Street Philadelphia

by William R. Birch, Thomas Birch

$1,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Plate 26 from the very rare first American colour-plate book, with views that are uniquely valuable among American historical prints Martin Snyder . This finely composed view shows Pennsylvania Hospital from Pine Street, set behind its brick perimeter wall and framed by mature trees. Birch gives the scene the character of a lived urban space: pedestrians pass along the wall, a mounted figure and attendant occupy the shaded foreground, and the hospital buildings rise beyond

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