Gerard's [Girard's] Bank, Philadelphia: Atlas til Friherre Klinckowströms Bref om de Förente Staterne (Atlas to accompany Baron Klinckowström's Letters Written on a Journey to the United States, 1818-20)
Designer Axel Klinckowström Swedish
Etcher Carl Fredrik Akrell Swedish
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This aquatint view records the elegant Greek Revival temple-like building at 120 Third Street, Philadelphia, designed and built in 1795 by Samuel Blodgett to house the First Bank of the United States. By 1818-20, when drawn by Klinckström, it housed a bank founded in 1811by Stephen Girard (1750–1831) (today the buidling is a national historic landmark). Horse-drawn carts on the cobblestone streets, and humbler wood and brick structures nearby, contrast with the polished white marble.
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