Tower of the Winds, Athens
View from NE
The Tower of the Winds, named from the sculptured reliefs of wind-god that make up a frieze marking the cardinal directions on its eight sides, is located in the Roman Agora in Athens. The tower included a combination of sundials, a water clock, and a wind vane in the form of a triton. Vitruvius says that it was built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC, but archaeological evidence suggests that it may have been constructed in the 2nd century BCE before the rest of the forum.
Andronikos of Kyrrhos (Greek astronomer and architect, active late 2nd-early 1st centuries BCE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Torre_dels_Vents_d%27Atenes.JPG#file
Photographer: Joanbanjo
Image: April 11, 2011
100-50 BCE
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Berwind Mausoleum, West Laurel Hill Cemetery
marble
12 meters high, 8 meters in diameter
horologion, sundial, clepsydra, water clock
CP2014-033
Greek (Classical)
Hellenistic
Athens, Greece
Tower of the Winds, Athens
View from NE
The Tower of the Winds, named from the sculptured reliefs of wind-god that make up a frieze marking the cardinal directions on its eight sides, is located in the Roman Agora in Athens. The tower included a combination of sundials, a water clock, and a wind vane in the form of a triton. Vitruvius says that it was built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC, but archaeological evidence suggests that it may have been constructed in the 2nd century BCE before the rest of the forum.
Andronikos of Kyrrhos (Greek astronomer and architect, active late 2nd-early 1st centuries BCE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Torre_dels_Vents_d%27Atenes.JPG#file
Photographer: Joanbanjo
Image: April 11, 2011
100-50 BCE
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Berwind Mausoleum, West Laurel Hill Cemetery
marble
12 meters high, 8 meters in diameter
horologion, sundial, clepsydra, water clock
CP2014-033
Greek (Classical)
Hellenistic
Athens, Greece
Achilles Among the Daughters of Lycomedes
According to a prophecy, the Greeks could not take Troy without Achilles, but he was doomed to die in that war. Achilles' mother Thetis therefore sent him to the island of Skyros, where he lived disguised as a maiden with the daughters of King Lycomedes. Odysseus was sent to retrieve Achilles for the Greek cause. Disguised as a trader, he laid out feminine jewelry and ornaments along with masculine weapons, then arranged for a military alarm to be sounded. Benbridge has shown the moment when Achilles, still wearing a woman's clothing, hears the alarm and claps a helmet on his head, thus revealing his true identity. The story appears in many versions; the most detailed is by the Roman poet Statius in his Achilleid. It is the subject of paintings by Poussin and others.
Benbridge, Henry (American painter, 1743-1812)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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oil on canvas
26 ¼ x 42 ¼ in.
CP2015-034
American
Creation site: Philadelphia, PA
Repository: Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection
Accession number: PMA_.1990-88-1
The late theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Destroy'd by Fire in 1820
The first Chestnut Street Theater, built in 1791 and remodeled by Benjamin Latrobe in 1805, stood at the NW corner of 6th and Chestnut Streets. Originally called the New Theatre, it was built for the acting company of Thomas Wignell and Alexander Reinagle. This building saw productions of Addison's Cato (1800) and William Whitehead's (1712-1785) The Roman Father, which was performed on December 23, 1799, as part of a tribute to President George Washington, who had died ten days earlier.
Birch, William Russell (British printmaker and miniaturist active in United States, 1755-1834)
1804
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engraving (restrike)
7.13 x 10.15 inches
CP2015-029
American
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Accession number: FP - XVIII - B617, no. 0 (A size) [P&P]
The late theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Destroy'd by Fire in 1820
The first Chestnut Street Theater, built in 1791 and remodeled by Benjamin Latrobe in 1805, stood at the NW corner of 6th and Chestnut Streets. Originally called the New Theatre, it was built for the acting company of Thomas Wignell and Alexander Reinagle. This building saw productions of Addison's Cato (1800) and William Whitehead's (1712-1785) The Roman Father, which was performed on December 23, 1799, as part of a tribute to President George Washington, who had died ten days earlier.
Birch, William Russell (British printmaker and miniaturist active in United States, 1755-1834)
1804
No known restrictions on publication in the U.S. Use elsewhere may be restricted by other countries' laws. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions ...,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html)
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engraving (restrike)
7.13 x 10.15 inches
CP2015-029
American
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Accession Number: FP - XVIII - B617, no. 0 (A size) [P&P]
First Bank of the United States, Philadelphia
exterior, façade, oblique view
Blodgett, Samuel (American architect and merchant, 1757-1814)
Photographer: Ralph Lieberman
1795
Ralph Lieberman, 34 Moorland Stree, Williamstown, MA 01267, rlieberman@williams.edu
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CP2014-046
120 South 3rd Street, Philadelphia
First Bank of the United States, Philadelphia
exterior, façade, oblique view
Blodgett, Samuel (American architect and merchant, 1757-1814)
Photographer: Ralph Lieberman
1795
Ralph Lieberman, 34 Moorland Stree, Williamstown, MA 01267, rlieberman@williams.edu
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CP2014-047
120 South 3rd Street, Philadelphia
First Bank of the United States, Philadelphia
exterior, entrance door detail
Blodgett, Samuel (American architect and merchant, 1757-1814)
Photographer: Ralph Lieberman
1795
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CP2014-048
120 South 3rd Street, Philadelphia
Stephen Girard's Bank, Philadelphia
First Bank of the United States. Depicts the building occupied by Stephen Girard's Bank from 1812 to 1929. View from SE.
Engraving showing the First Bank of the United States as Stephen Girard's Bank (1812-1929). Labeled lower left "Drawn by C. Burton N.Y." lower right "Engraved & Printed by Fenner Sears & Co."
Blodgett, Samuel (American architect and merchant, 1757-1814); Fenner, Sears & Co. (British architectural and landscape engravers, active 1830-ca. 1836)
Free Library of Philadelphia
Image © Free Library of Philadelphia, Digital Images Collection.
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CP2014-050
American
120 S. 3rd St., Philadelphia
Repository: Free Library of Philadelphia
Accession Number: pdcc00658
First Bank of the United States, Philadelphia
written in purple pencil on verso: "Girard Bank, 3rd + Dock sts"
Blodgett, Samuel (American architect and merchant, 1757-1814); Richards, Frederick DeBourg (American photographer, painter, and etcher, 1822-1903)
Data from: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Photographer: Richards, Frederick DeBourg
Image: 1859
1859
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salted paper print from wet collodion negative
Image: 20.4cm x 15.5cm, Paper: 22.3cm x 16.4cm
CP2014-045
American
Repository: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 2002.41 http://www.clemusart.com/ John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number: CMA_.2002.41