The Accident in Lombard Street,Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,PA,1787,Chimney Sweeps
Title: The accident in Lombard Street Philada. 1787 / design'd and engraved by C.W. Peale.
Creator(s): Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827, artist
Date Created/Published: [Philadelphia] : 1787.
Summary: Print shows Chimney sweeps laughing at girl, who has dropped a pie on the street. The artist's residence and studio appear at left. Includes four line verse: The pye from Bake-house she had brought / But let it fall for want of thought / And laughing sweeps collect around / The pye that's scatter'd on the ground.
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Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 587.
Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.
Subjects:
Accidents--1780-1790.
Children--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1780-1790.
Streets--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1780-1790.
Etchings--1780-1790.
Bookmark /93508047/
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