Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Title Near east park, Phila. [graphic] / A. Kollner, fect.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : etching mounted on album page ; 28 x 36 cm. (11 x 14 in.)
Description Etching looking southeast showing two men walking between two large mounds of land, one with a goat standing near the edge, the other surmounted by a frame shack surrounded by a fence. Also includes dwellings, a tower and a train traveling south on tracks running along Pennsylvania Avenue in the right background.
Notes Manuscript note on album page: S.E. corner 27th & Aspen.
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 Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Goats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Aspen Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- corner of Twenty-seventh Street.
Genre Etchings -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.16]
Accession number 2086.F.16