Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Title Schuylkill River below the falls, Fairmount Pk. 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 a man with a book sitting on a large rock near a towering rock formation on the edge of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Includes a dog curled up on the ground nearby, people in rowboats on the river, and a dwelling on the edge of the river in the right background.
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 Rock formations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rowboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dogs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.6]
Accession number 2086.F.6