Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Title In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic]. AK.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1878]
Physical Description 3 prints: lithograph; 10 x 15 cm.(4 x 5.75 in.) or smaller.
Description Landscape views showing "Belmont Prospect (1848)"; "Above Girard Bridge East"; and "Above Columbia Bridge." 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; park visitors; cliffs; rock formations; and trees. Belmont was the country seat of Peters until his death in 1828.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 372a
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 K 8346.86
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 Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 -- Homes and haunts.
Rock formations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Columbia Railroad Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 61 K 8346.86