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Americana - Session Two - Lots 544-984

Fri, Jan 17, 2025 09:00AM EST
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Lot 544

George Heap and Nicholas Scull Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, 1754

Estimate: $200,000 - $300,000
Starting Bid
$100,000

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George Heap (American 1714-1752) and Nicholas Scull (American 1687-1761), An East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia Taken By George Heap from the Jersey Shore, under the Direction of Nicholas Skull, Surveyor General of the Province of Pennsylvania, panoramic engraving by Gerard Vandergucht (1696-1766), London, 1754, on four large folio sheets of laid paper, with Scull's name misspelled, accompanied by the former home spun linen backing which had been adhered with rabbit skin glue, overall - 25 1/4" h., 84" l.

By order of Thomas Penn, local artist George Heap and surveyor Nicholas Scull created an engraving to attract settlers and commerce to Philadelphia, along the lines of three other pre-revolutionary prospects of New York, Boston, and Charleston. Their work detailed less than a mile of Philadelphia waterfront on an astonishing seven feet of paper. This Heap-Scull engraving stands as the largest and most artistically important view of any American city of the period. Due to the size of the engraving, there are very few known to have survived to the present day, with only eight copies in institutional collections to include Colonial Williamsburg, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Winterthur, etc.

Provenance: Acquired by the current owners from a Central Pennsylvania collector in 2003.

Detailed professional restoration report available upon request. Left to right: 25 3/16'' x 22 5/16''; 25 3/8'' x 21 1/16''; 25 3/8'' x 22 11/16''; 25 1/16'' x 22''. Sheet to the right of center trimmed on left edge. Countermark IV on each sheet.

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