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Near east park, Phila. [graphic] / A. Kollner, fect.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A13841
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Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Title
Near east park, Phila. [graphic] / A. Kollner, fect.
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : etching mounted on album page ; 28 x 36 cm. (11 x 14 in.)
Description
Etching looking southeast showing two men walking between two large mounds of land, one with a goat standing near the edge, the other surmounted by a frame shack surrounded by a fence. Also includes dwellings, a tower and a train traveling south on tracks running along Pennsylvania Avenue in the right background.
Notes
Manuscript note on album page: S.E. corner 27th & Aspen.
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
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Goats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Aspen Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- corner of Twenty-seventh Street.
Genre
Etchings -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.16]
Accession number
2086.F.16
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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