[Philadelphia]
DÜRING, C. A. PHILADELPHIA VON DEM GROSSEN BAUM ZU KINGSTON. [PHILADELPHIA FROM THE GREAT TREE OF KINGSTON (I.E. KENSINGTON)], 1827
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Fine Printed and Manuscript Americana, Including Cartography
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New York
New York
[Philadelphia]
DÜRING, C. A. PHILADELPHIA VON DEM GROSSEN BAUM ZU KINGSTON. [PHILADELPHIA FROM THE GREAT TREE OF KINGSTON (I.E. KENSINGTON)], 1827
Pen, watercolor, and gouache (sheet: 18 3/4 x 23 3/4 in.; 502 x 603 mm; image: 14 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.; 362 x 495 mm), on wove paper, integral brown gouache border with ruled lines in black and white, signed, dated and titled beneath the image in white gouache in a cartographic hand "Pinx[it]: C:A: Düring.1827. | Philadelphia von dem grossen Baum zu Kingston".
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Read Condition Report
Light spotting, affecting image.
Catalogue Note
Philadelphia in 1820s, depicting the city from just beyond the great elm tree at Kensington on the Delaware, in a typically German landscape style for the period.
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Fine Printed and Manuscript Americana, Including Cartography
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New York
New York
