Details
Contributor Woodward Stereoscopic Co., publisher.
Title Fountain. Rittenhouse Square. [graphic].
Publisher Rochester, N.Y. : Woodward Stereoscopic Co
Publisher N.Y. Rochester. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount, hand-colored ; 10 x 17 cm. (4 x 6.75 in.)
Description View in Rittenhouse Square shows an ornate drinking fountain adorned by a column with sea horses and the bearded face of Neptune surmounted by a classical male figure balancing his body with one foot. Donated to the Philadelphia Fountain Society by prominent Philadelphia civil engineer and art collector J. Gillingham Fell and installed at the northwest corner of Rittenhouse Square (at Walnut and Rittenhouse streets) in 1872.
Is part of Philadelphia, Pa. 243
Notes Title on negative.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount and surrounded by decorative border.
Yellow curved mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Philadelphia Fountain Society.
Drinking fountains -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Rittenhouse Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- Hand-colored -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- Hand-colored -- 1870-1880.
Printer Woodward Stereoscopic Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Woodward - Monuments and statues [P.9732]
Accession number P.9732