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City as Spectacle: William Birch's Views and the Chestnut Street Theatre

City as Spectacle: William Birch's Views and the Chestnut Street Theatre City as Spectacle: William Birch’s Views and the Chestnut Street Theatre wendy bellion On 27 March 1805, the Chestnut Street Theatre (CST) in Philadelphia held an immigrant Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Scene three moved south from unprecedented benefit for its ‘principal scene painter’, the British-born artist Philadelphia to a ‘view of the city of Baltimore as an Eidophusicon. This view John Joseph Holland. The theatre often organized benefits for its leading actors, comprises the principal buildings in the city, the point, and distant view of the but rarely had a scene painter been so honored. On benefit nights, audiences Chesapeak [sic] bay’. This use of the term ‘Eidophusicon’ explicitly referenced a turned out in droves to see their favorite players in satirical comedies or type of theatrical illusion invented and popularized by Philippe de Shakespearean tragedies. Following the main feature, they enjoyed shorter Loutherbourg in London during the 1780s. Finally, scenes four and five shifted afterpieces, such as comic operas, songs, dances, pantomimes, farces, and musical from the urban to the rural, representing sites famous for their natural beauty and interludes. The many performances made for long but varied evenings, and the wonder: the ‘Great Falls’ of the Potomac River, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

City as Spectacle: William Birch's Views and the Chestnut Street Theatre

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10.1080/14601176.2012.629503
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City as Spectacle: William Birch’s Views and the Chestnut Street Theatre wendy bellion On 27 March 1805, the Chestnut Street Theatre (CST) in Philadelphia held an immigrant Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Scene three moved south from unprecedented benefit for its ‘principal scene painter’, the British-born artist Philadelphia to a ‘view of the city of Baltimore as an Eidophusicon. This view John Joseph Holland. The theatre often organized benefits for its leading actors, comprises the principal buildings in the city, the point, and distant view of the but rarely had a scene painter been so honored. On benefit nights, audiences Chesapeak [sic] bay’. This use of the term ‘Eidophusicon’ explicitly referenced a turned out in droves to see their favorite players in satirical comedies or type of theatrical illusion invented and popularized by Philippe de Shakespearean tragedies. Following the main feature, they enjoyed shorter Loutherbourg in London during the 1780s. Finally, scenes four and five shifted afterpieces, such as comic operas, songs, dances, pantomimes, farces, and musical from the urban to the rural, representing sites famous for their natural beauty and interludes. The many performances made for long but varied evenings, and the wonder: the ‘Great Falls’ of the Potomac River,

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Published: Jan 1, 2012

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