Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 352

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(PENNSYLVANIA.) Hill, John, engraver; after Jones and Krimmel. The Conflagration of the Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Hand-colored aquatint, 25 3/4 x 21 inches; light toning and minimal wear, early tag on verso. Philadelphia: William Smith, circa 1862-91

Additional Details

A later state of a print issued shortly after the devastating March 1819 fire. It was dedicated to "the active and much esteemed fire engine & hose companies." The obscure Philadelphia artist Samuel Jones did the original painting, but the better-known genre artist John Lewis Krimmel was brought in to paint the figures. Made in America: Printmaking, 1760-1860 exhibition #30; Naeve, John Lewis Krimmel: An Artist in Federal America, 96c and pages 83-84, 108-9; Snyder, Mirror of America 510.