Fictitious view of the port of Philadelphia, laid out between the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers in 1682 by the surveyor general Thomas Holme and named by William Penn.
Metadata
Creator
Leizelt, Balthasar Friedrich
Date
[1778?]
Name on Item
gravé par Balth. Frederic Leizelt.
Publisher
[s.n.]
Language
French
Location
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local)
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects
Vues d'optique
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Places
North and Central America
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Philadelphia (county)
United States
Extent
1 print : etching, hand-colored, 26 x 40 cm.
Terms and License
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
Notes
Additional title from top margin (as characteristic of optical prints, series title is printed in reverse).
From "Collection des prospects."
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