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[Original sketch and plan of the Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Owen Biddle.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Visual Materials BID*001*001
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- Format:
- Image
- Author/Creator:
- Biddle, Owen, 1774-1806.
- Standardized Title:
- Arch Street Meeting House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quaker church buildings--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Quaker church buildings.
- Architecture, American--19th century--Designs and plans.
- Architecture, American.
- Mulberry and Fourth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- 300 Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Arch Street Meeting House (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Local Subjects:
- Mulberry and Fourth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- 300 Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Arch Street Meeting House (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Genre:
- Architectural drawings -- American.
- Slipcases (Binding).
- Ink drawings.
- Wash drawings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawings : ink and wash on paper in buckram slipcase ; visible image 39 x 40 cm. in case 52 x 53 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- 1803?
- Summary:
- Plot plan shows site at the corner of "Mulberry" and "Fourth" Streets, including a burial ground above a passageway to Fourth Street. Entire site appears to be enclosed in walls with gates on both streets.
- Notes:
- Title based upon description in bookseller's appraisal and deed of gift.
- "Owen Biddle" signed in lower right corner of rendered perspective sketch.
- Date showing in pediment of image in rendered sketch appears to read 1800 or 1803. 1803 date given in Tatman and Moss, p. 68, which also give the location as 300 Arch St., Philadelphia.
- 2 unlabeled images: [1] plot plan--lower right 3/4 of sheet [2] Rendered perspective, black and white--upper left corner.
- Drawing includes penciled notes in upper left corner, apparently in later hand: "Scale probably 25 ft. to inch, but historians not uniform to correspond with this. The date in the pediment appears to be 1800 or 1803. The interior is arranged differently at present. Note that there are no ports for youths galleries on east and west sides."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of George Vaux,
- Cited in:
- Laverty, v. 1, p. 27, BID*001*001
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