Art, literature & history
High Street, from Ninth Street, Philadelphia
1800
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- hand-colored engraving on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 21.43 × 28.42 cm (8 7/16 × 11 3/16 in.) sheet (trimmed): 25.4 × 28.42 cm (10 × 11 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.792
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Russell Birch. High Street, from Ninth Street, Philadelphia. William Russell Birch; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund, 1956). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
High Street, from Ninth Street, Philadelphia — William Russell Birch. 1800.
Medium: hand-colored engraving on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 21.43 × 28.42 cm (8 7/16 × 11 3/16 in.) sheet (trimmed): 25.4 × 28.42 cm (10 × 11 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.792. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund, 1956).
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.