State-House, with a View of Chesnut Street Philadelphia

by William R. Birch, Thomas Birch

$2,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Signed

Plate 21 from the very rare first American colour-plate book, with views that are uniquely valuable among American historical prints Martin Snyder . The subject was still known as the Pennsylvania State House when Birch drew it, although it would later become Independence Hall. It is identified as the site where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776 and where the United States Constitution was created and signed in 1787. Birch's image records the site before

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