[Philadelphia]

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". 

Light spotting, affecting image.

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.