Details
Title View in the park [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 18 x 9 cm (7 x 3.5 in.) (stereograph format)
Description View of a marble sculpture, probably Dionysus, in Fairmount Park, Pa. Shows the sculpture of Dionysus, attired in a loincloth, a crown of ivy and grapes, and carrying a thysus, i.e., a staff topped with a pine cone which symbolizes fertility. Behind and near the sculpture a walkway and tree are visible. In the left, a person, attired in a brimmed hat, sits on the grass and looks at the viewer. Urns filled with plants decorate the edge of the path. In the right a collection of tree branches lies by the tree near the sculpture.
Is part of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Notes Title from name on series list on verso.
Date inferred from content.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Dionysus (Greek deity)
Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Thyrsus.
Urns -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Walkways -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret and Mitchell Collection – Photos [P.2019.64.52]
Accession number P.2019.64.52