Unattributed "Penitentiaire de Philadelphie” [Eastern State Penitentiary]

Unattributed.  “Penitentiaire de Philadelphie.”  [Eastern State Penitentiary]. 

From Jean B.G. Roux de Rochelle.  Etats-Unis d’Amerique.  Paris: Firmin Didot freres, [1837].  Octavo.  3 x 6 ¾ (image).  Steel engraving by Traversier. 

A steel engraving from a octavo set of illustrations by the French Minister to the U.S., Roux de Rochelle.  The volume included 96 images of the United States and it was first issued in 1837 as part of a larger series entitled L’Univers.  The work and its plates were reissued in several French editions, one Italian edition in 1839, and one Spanish edition in 1841.  They form one of the most interesting series of views of Philadelphia from the first half of the nineteenth century.