Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Contributor Camp, John Henry, 1822-1881, printer.
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Title Fairmount [graphic] / Lithy. of A. Kollner Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by Camp
Date [1848]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 11 x 16 cm.(4 x 6 in.)
Description View looking toward Reservoir Hill showing the engine house, mill house, and mound dam of the water works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. A row boat and sail boat are visible on the Schuylkill River in the foreground.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
pdcj00003
Date from manuscript note on recto.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 227
Free Library of Philadelphia: FLP Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 51
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 Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Water works -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 51