High street, from the country market-place Philadelphia : with the procession in commemoration of the death of General George Washington, December 26th, 1799.

High street, from the country market-place Philadelphia : with the procession in commemoration of the death of General George Washington, December 26th, 1799.

2nd ed., 3rd state.

[Philadelphia W. Birch 1804]

1 print ; image 22 x 28 cm. on sheet 34 x 40 cm.

P&E L2015F49

Signed: Designed & published by W. Birch enamel painter 1800.
When issued 27 plates in 1800; Birch's prints of Philadelphia formed the 1st series of views of any American city;
First state did not show the procession; for 2nd state, BIrch produced a whole new plate instead of reworking the exisitng one & added the funeral procession.
Digitized image available.

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