Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Contributor Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Title Bits of nature and some art products [graphic]. AK.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [1878]
Physical Description 3 prints: lithograph; 10 x 16 cm.(4 x 6.25 in.) or smaller.
Description Landscape views showing "At South Laurel Hill"; "East of Columbia Bridge"; and "West of Wire Bridge (1842)" in Fairmount Park. Includes a mule driver in front of a hotel, possibly the Upper Ferry Tavern, near the bridge; park visitors; vessels on the Schuylkill River; rock formations; trees; and a cascading brook. 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 56a
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 K 8346.85
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.)
Wire Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 61 K 8346.85