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(PENNSYLVANIA.) Trenchard, James, engraver?; after Charles Willson Peale. A N.W. View of the State House in Philadelphia Taken 1778. Engraving, 5 x 7 inches; laid down on later paper, slightly toned; in early 10 x 11-inch frame with title plate, framed by the Old Print Shop. Not examined outside of frame. [Philadelphia, July 1787]
Published as the first in a series of Philadelphia views in the first volume of the Columbian Magazine, America's first monthly magazine. The frame's title plate credits James Thackera as the engraver. Thackera was at the time a 20-year-old apprentice to James Trenchard, who is generally credited as the engraver. The print credits only "J.T., sculp." Snyder, City of Independence, 113.
