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FOUR VIEWS OF STENTON...

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FOUR VIEWS OF STENTON...
FOUR VIEWS OF STENTON
American School, 19th c.
Philadelphia, signed "J. Richard," died 1889.
Including Front and Rear Views of Stenton, Graveyard at Stenton, and the House Once Occupied by James Logan While Building Stenton.
Pen and ink on paper. Unframed.
8 1/2 x 11 in..
PROVENANCE:
Stenton was built by James Logan, agent to William Penn between 1720 and 1730. It stands today as one of the best preserved colonial homes in the country. It has been maintained by the Colonial Dames of America, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 1899.
John Richards was a well known character of Germantown in the 1870s to 1880s. A Swedish immigrant, he joined the Union army in the early days of the Civil War. He was wounded at Bull Run. While recovering at the Chestnut Hill Hospital be began sketching historic buildings. He continued making sketches of old buildings for a living. After his death, a number of his sketches were collected and published in Quaint Old Germantown, 1913. A scrapbook of his Germantown sketches is in the collections of the Germantown Historical Society. These sketches were found in a trunk from Wakefield, purchased in 1972 from a Fisher descendant, Mrs. Wister Wurts.
$800-1,200