Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Title In park at Philadelphia [graphic] / A.K.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1878]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 27 x 50 cm.(10.5 x 14 in.)
Description Print containing 4 titled views of landscapes in Fairmount Park. Includes "Near Fountain Green"; "Near Columbia Bridge" (2 views); and "On Wissahickon." All the images include trees and rock formations. Three include one or more park visitors. Fountain Green, built around 1781, was the estate near the Schuylkill River (East Fairmount Park) originally settled by John Mifflin around 1679. It became a tavern and picnic site for Engel and Wolf Brewery around 1849. The mansion was torn down in 1871. "Near Columbia Bridge" views do not contain the Columbia Railroad Bridge, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, completed in 1834.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 373
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 18 K 81
Includes registration mark.
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.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fountain Green (Pa. : Estate)
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 18 K 81