Vue de Philadelphie.

Title

Vue de Philadelphie.

Description

Map shows the city of Philadelphia with beautiful ship representation.

ca. 1750

Artist

Leizelt

Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt, active 1750–1800, was a German artist and copperplate engraver working from Augsburg. Leizelt produced a series of European and American scenic views at a time when pictures of foreign countries and people were popular and designed for use in optical viewers. As is normal for these prints the series title is a mirror image because optical viewers made use of mirrors which reversed the image. The so-called peep box picture.

Historical Description

Originally, Pennsylvania was the settlement area of the Susquehannock, who were wiped out by Iroquois and European colonists. In 1643, the first settlers settled coming from Sweden. Later it came under the control of England. From 1671, William Penn traveled to many European countries promoting Quaker colonies in the New World. The Mason-Dixon line was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 to establish the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary that remains in effect today. It forms the historic boundary between the northern and southern states of the United States.