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WOOD, J[oseph]. Philadelphia from Cooper's Ferry.

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[New York: 1801]. Hand-finished color aquatint (375 x 520 mm). Condition: a bit soiled overall, trimmed and mounted to card, early owner's ink inscription to the right of the imprint "about 1790." Provenance: Martin P. Snyder. extremely rare view of philadelphia from camden: the earliest view of the city printed in colors. "All but one of the aquatinted Philadelphia views isued before approximately 1810 appear to have been produced in England. That one is the first nineteenth-century view of the city from across the Delaware" (Snyder, MOA p. 78). Snyder, however, incorrectly ascribes the aquatint, which appears with the imprint "Drawn and Engraved by J. Wood," to John Wood. An advertisement dated 7 May 1801 in the New York Commercial Advertiser announces that Joseph Wood "has just published a view of Philadelphia from Cooper's Ferry ... which is now ready for delivery" (quoted in Gottesman, The Arts and Crafts of New York 1800-1804). Snyder, MOA 624.

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