Details
Contributor Fenderich & Wild, printer.
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Title [Fairmount Water Works near Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Fenderich & Wild's lith. press
Date [ca. 1833]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 25 x 36 cm.(9.75 x 14.25 in.)
Description View from the floodgates, i.e. race bridge, looking toward the eastern side of the water works that were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Shows several park visitors on the bridge who observe one another. Includes couples on promenade; a boy with a hoop; a woman watching two men converse about a sheet of paper; and a family whose daughters meekly peer at an African American couple. Two dogs bark in the direction of the African American woman who sits next to her companion who stands. Pedestrians stroll on the promenade of the mill house, swans glide on the water, and the gazebo on Reservoir Hill is visible. Also shows the engine house, signage advertising "Soda Water, "and the William Rush statuary adorning the works, including "Mercury" atop the gazebo and "Schuylkill Freed" and "Schuylkill Chained" adorning the mill house.
Is referenced by Wainwright 123
Notes Title from duplicate in the collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 236
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 88 F 331
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 30:88. Includes publishers' imprints: "Philadelphia published by Fenderich & Wild Callowhill St. No. 215" and "New York published by Thomas Cotrel No. 97... [portion missing]"
Charles Fenderich and John Caspar Wild partnered as lithographers from 1833 to 1834.
Lower left corner missing, repaired, and retouched.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Recreation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 88 F 331