Original antique print with contemporary colour.
Artist and engraver unknown.
John Weik, was born in 1827 in Württemberg, Germany. Weik immigrated to Philadelphia in 1850 and soon after started the naturalization process and entered the city's publishing industry, including lithographs.
In 1851, he operated a book and stationery store at 155 North Third Street. From 1857 to ca. 1860, he partnered with Hugo Liebing to form the book publishing and importing business John Weik & Co. at 533 Chestnut Street.
During the 1850s and 1860s, Weik traveled between Germany and Philadelphia several times, presumably to enhance his shop's collection of German works. Weik also published lithographs, many of them bird's eye views, including Bachmann's "Bird's Eye View of Philadelphia" printed by P.S. Duval & Son (1857), Herline's "Microscopic View of New York" (1870), and a map of Boston, Massachusetts (1870) designed by F. Fuchs.
