Philadelphia Street Plan, from "Atlas til Friherre Klinckowströms Bref om de Förente Staterne" (Atlas to accompany Baron Klinckowström's Letters Written on a Journey to the United States, 1818–20)
A gridded street plan that extends from the Schuykill River at left, to the Delaware at right, with streets from Cedar in the south to Vine in the north. Above, a design contains two allegorical female figures (Plenty holding a cornucopia and a figure, perhaps Geometry, holding a sheet with a gridded plan). They support a shield topped by a set of scales, with palm and olive branches to either side.
Artwork Details
- Title: Philadelphia Street Plan, from "Atlas til Friherre Klinckowströms Bref om de Förente Staterne" (Atlas to accompany Baron Klinckowström's Letters Written on a Journey to the United States, 1818–20)
- Series/Portfolio: Atlas til Friherre Klinckowströms Bref om de Förente Staterne (Atlas to accompany Baron Klinckowström's Letters Written on a Journey to the United States, 1818–20)
- Printer: C. Müller, Stockholm
- Author: Relates to Axel Klinckowström (Swedish, 1775–1837)
- Date: 1824
- Medium: Lithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 12 11/16 in. (23.3 × 32.2 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
- Object Number: 24.90.1965(5)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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