Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Contributor Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Title Bits of nature and some art products in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic]. AK.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1878]
Physical Description 9 prints (1 sheet): lithograph; 42 x 53 cm.(16.5 x 20.75 in.) overall.
Description Uncut sheet of landscape views showing "Below Girard Bridge, East"; "East of Columbia Bridge"; "Above Columbia Bridge"; "Ravine near Reservoir East"; "At South Laurel Hill"; "Belmont Prospect (1848)"; "East of Girard Bridge (1857)";"West of Wire Bridge (1842)"and "Above Girard Bridge East." Includes a man on horseback approaching the residence, on the plateau, at Belmont, the former estate of Judge Richard Peters; a distant view of the Columbia Bridge (completed 1834) across the Schuylkill River; a horse-drawn wagon and man on horseback crossing the Old Girard Avenue Bridge; a mule driver in front of a hotel, possibly the Upper Ferry Tavern, near the Wire Bridge; park visitors, including children; vessels on the Schuylkill River; cliffs; a cascading brook; rock formations; and trees. Belmont was the country seat of Peters until his death in 1828. The old Girard Avenue Bridge was built in 1855 and razed in 1871. The Wire Bridge at Fairmount, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 56
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 81 Z 99
Biographical / historical note Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Subject Rock formations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Streams -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Wire Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Landscape prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 81 Z 99