Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, 1812-1906, artist.
Contributor Knauer, Davis, associated name.
Title The Hotel at French Creek Falls [graphic] / taken from nature by Aug. Kollner of Philada 1884.
Publisher [Pennsylvania]
Publisher PA. 1884
Date [ca. 1884]
Physical Description 1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 61 x 38 cm (24 x 15 in.)
Description Watercolor landscape showing an exterior view of the Excursion House or hotel built by Davis Knauer in 1881 in Saint Peters at the Falls of French Creek in Warwick Township, Pennsylvania. Shows the four-story building with several people on the covered porches and a horse tied to a post at the front entrance. A horse-drawn cart carrying two people travels down the road in front of the hotel. In the foreground are large rocks protuding from the hillside, and a man with a walking stick sits on a rock with his dog. Hills of trees grow in the background.
Notes Title and date from manuscript note written on verso.
Label from Hirscl & Adler Galleries Inc., 21 East 67th Street, New York 21, N.Y. in accession file.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022.
Biographical / historical note Augustus Kollner was born in Germany and settled in Philadelphia in 1840. An artist, lithographer, and etcher, Kollner produced series of lithographs, etchings, and watercolors in the 1870s and 1890s after sketches he executed in the 1840s. Subjects included Fairmount Park and Pennsylvania.
Subject Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Saint Peters.
Dogs -- Pennsylvania -- Saint Peters.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Saint Peters.
Men -- Pennsylvania -- Saint Peters.
Trees -- Pennsylvania -- Saint Peters.
Geographic subject French Creek (Berks County and Chester County, Pa.)
Warwick (Chester County, Pa. : Township)
Genre Landscape drawings -- 1880-1890.
Watercolors -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.17]
Accession number P.2022.62.3.17