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Sweet Briar Mansion, in 1843. (In Fairmount Park) [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
Sweet Briar Mansion, in 1843. (In Fairmount Park) [graphic].
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 horses galloping and drinking water in front of the former country house of Philadelphia merchant and politician Samuel Breck built in 1797 in West Fairmount Park. Two men stand and talk in front of the mansion in the background. Includes a view of another dwelling in the right background. Sweet Briar was incorporated into the park in 1869 and remodeled in 1870 for use as a children's restaurant. Also known as the Samuel Breck House and Sweetbrier.
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
Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Sweetbriar (Pa. : Estate)
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.4]
Accession number
2086.F.4
In Collections
Bits of Nature and Some Art Products in Fairmount Park at Philadelphia, Penna.
Album Collection
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Published Albums
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