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Ferdinand Richardt: Independence Hall in Philadelphia  wikidata:Q28803599 reasonator:Q28803599
Artist
Ferdinand Richardt  (1819–1895)  wikidata:Q3068652
 
Ferdinand Richardt
Alternative names
Joachim Ferdinand Richardt
Description Danish artist and painter
Date of birth/death 10 April 1819 Edit this at Wikidata 29 October 1895 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Copenhagen, Denmark Oakland
Work period 1836-1887
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artist QS:P170,Q3068652
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Title
Independence Hall in Philadelphia
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1858
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 94.6 cm (37.2 in); width: 166.7 cm (65.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,94.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,166.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q35525
Accession number
963.508.1
Object history Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Levine in memory of President John F. Kennedy
Credit line The White House Historical Association (White House Collection)
Notes

White House copy of the painting. Notes by Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008:

"We are in the literal and symbolic heart of a famous and prosperous American city. Scores of citizens from every walk of life throng the scene at Sixth and Chestnut Streets. It is a quarter before noon on a warm summer day (see the clock on the tower and the open windows of the Philadelphia County Courthouse--now known as Congress Hall--at the right). The painted sides of the public carriage announce that it runs along Chestnut Street, ... while an up-to-date horse drawn streetcar is coming into view at the right along tracks laid in 1858 on Sixth Street.

... A black child with dog and basket stands slightly apart from two white boys with their delivery cart. In front of them stand a pair of handsomely dressed ladies and their equally elegant escort; a little behind them is the distinctive figure of an Italian immigrant peddler ... Another immigrant ... strolls with his family in the left center foreground.

Although the facades of all the buildings except the courthouse are obscured by trees, Richardt has included the top of the Jayne Building in the distance at the left, beyond the classical portico of the former Second Bank of the United States. ... At the center the tower and spire of Independence Hall rise dramatically ... spotlighted, together with the flag, by shafts of sunlight breaking through dark clouds."
References Google Arts & Culture asset ID: iAG9lR7701wbHQ Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer White House Art Collection
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