| Creator |
Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906. |
| Contributor |
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer. |
|
Nevil, Thomas, 1721-1797, architect. |
| Title |
Belmont and waterworks. Mount Pleasant, Fairmount Park, Philada. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia] |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1878 |
| Date |
[ca. 1878] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : hand-colored lithograph, tinted with two stones and mounted on album page ; sheet 28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in.) |
| Description |
Lithograph showing mules walking on towpaths pulling canal boats in the Schuylkill River in the foreground. Also shows distant
views of West Fairmount Park properties, including Belmont Mansion, the estate house and country seat of Judge Richard Peters;
the smokestack of the Belmont Waterworks engine house, designed by Frederick Graff in the late 1860s; and Mount Pleasant Mansion
(i.e. Arnold Mansion) built after designs by Thomas Nevil 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson. Includes a locomotive traveling
north on the west bank of the river in the right background. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased
the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved
people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount
Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion.
The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia
Museum of Art restored the house in 1926.
|
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
|
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
| Biographical / historical note |
Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park
..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
|
| Subject |
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 -- Homes and haunts. |
|
Macpherson, John, 1723-1792 -- Homes and haunts. |
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Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 -- Homes and haunts. |
|
Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815 -- Homes and haunts. |
|
Belmont Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Canal boats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Mules -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Plantations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Slavery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Smokestacks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Schuylkill River (Pa.) |
|
Belmont (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate) |
|
Mount Pleasant (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate) |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- Tinted -- 1870-1880. |
| Associated name |
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer. |
| Associated name |
Nevil, Thomas, 1721-1797, architect. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol 2086.F.7] |
| Accession number |
2086.F.7 |
