Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Title Peters Island, Fairmount Park, Philada. [graphic] / A.K.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1878
Date [ca. 1878]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with two stones and mounted on album page ; 28 x 36 cm. (11 x 14 in.)
Description Lithograph showing a man and woman horseback riding, a gentleman walking with his cane, and a man walking with two horses on a towpath in the foreground and Peter's Island, a canal boat, row boat and larger steam vessel on the Schuylkill River in the background. Peter's Island was immediately north of the Columbia Railroad Bridge in Fairmount Park.
Notes 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 Islands -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horseback riding -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Trails & paths -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Peter's Island (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.9]
Accession number 2086.F.9