Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Title Prospect from Ridgeland, Fairmount Park, Phila. [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 the landscape of West Fairmount Park near Ridgeland, the dwelling built as a farmhouse for William Couch between 1752 and 1762. A woman stands on the porch of the dwelling watching two children drag a tree branch toward the house. A man approaches a bench and cluster of trees nearby. Includes the outlines of Belmont Mansion and Girard College in the distance. Dwelling sold to the city of Philadelphia in 1869.
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 Couch, William -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Families -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chamounix Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 4200.
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.3]
Accession number 2086.F.3