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Near Sweet Briar, West Phila. [graphic].
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Bits of Nature and Some Art Products in Fairmount Park at Philadelphia, Penna.
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Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Title
Near Sweet Briar, West Phila. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1878
Date
[ca. 1878]
Physical Description
1 print : pencil drawing mounted on album page ; 28 x 36 cm. (11 x 14 in.)
Description
Etching showing a stream flowing over large rocks near Sweet Briar in West Fairmount Park.
Notes
Title from manuscript note in pencil on print.
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
Streams -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rock formations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Sweetbriar (Pa. : Estate)
Genre
Pencil works -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.21]
Accession number
2086.F.21
In Collections
Bits of Nature and Some Art Products in Fairmount Park at Philadelphia, Penna.
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Album Collection
Published Albums
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