Philadelphia Bathing Establishment erected 1827 by W. Swaim.
Philadelphia, c. 1829]. Watercolor and pen-and-ink circular view (185 mm diameter). Signed at the bottom of the image. Framed. original watercolor by breton, a study for a lithographed “trade card.” Little is known of Breton’s life before he came to Philadelphia in the mid-1820s. Soon after his arrival, he began work creating the illustrations for John Watson’s Annals of Philadelphia , as well as selling illustrations to the Philadelphia magazine The Casket and beginning a series of views of the city’s churches. “With a firm start in both book and magazine illustration, and with his own series of views of Philadelphia churches on the market, only the field of the ‘trade card,’ or business advertisement, remained for Breton to exploit. This, too, he seems to have entered into before the Annals was published. His undated Philadelphia Baths trade card probably appeared shortly after the baths … were opened in 1828” (Snyder). Lithographers Kennedy & Lucas, who would also produce the illustrations in Watson’s Annals, issued that “trade card” view by Breton. The baths, located at the corner of George (now Sansom) and Seventh Streets, are depicted there from the perspective of the middle of the block, facing the opposite side of the three story building than this watercolor. In his description of the lithographed view, Wainwright writes: “The Philadelphia Baths were opened by William Swaim in 1828. At the time few private residences had bathtubs so that public bathing establishments were a real convenience.” Although from a different perspective, it seems likely that this watercolor was among the studies of the baths submitted to Kennedy & Lucas for publication. Snyder, “William Breton, Nineteenth Century Philadelphia Artist” in PMHB, vol. 85., no. 2; Wainwright 280 (lithographed view).
Philadelphia Bathing Establishment erected 1827 by W. Swaim.
Philadelphia, c. 1829]. Watercolor and pen-and-ink circular view (185 mm diameter). Signed at the bottom of the image. Framed. original watercolor by breton, a study for a lithographed “trade card.” Little is known of Breton’s life before he came to Philadelphia in the mid-1820s. Soon after his arrival, he began work creating the illustrations for John Watson’s Annals of Philadelphia , as well as selling illustrations to the Philadelphia magazine The Casket and beginning a series of views of the city’s churches. “With a firm start in both book and magazine illustration, and with his own series of views of Philadelphia churches on the market, only the field of the ‘trade card,’ or business advertisement, remained for Breton to exploit. This, too, he seems to have entered into before the Annals was published. His undated Philadelphia Baths trade card probably appeared shortly after the baths … were opened in 1828” (Snyder). Lithographers Kennedy & Lucas, who would also produce the illustrations in Watson’s Annals, issued that “trade card” view by Breton. The baths, located at the corner of George (now Sansom) and Seventh Streets, are depicted there from the perspective of the middle of the block, facing the opposite side of the three story building than this watercolor. In his description of the lithographed view, Wainwright writes: “The Philadelphia Baths were opened by William Swaim in 1828. At the time few private residences had bathtubs so that public bathing establishments were a real convenience.” Although from a different perspective, it seems likely that this watercolor was among the studies of the baths submitted to Kennedy & Lucas for publication. Snyder, “William Breton, Nineteenth Century Philadelphia Artist” in PMHB, vol. 85., no. 2; Wainwright 280 (lithographed view).
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