| Creator |
Arnout, Jules, artist. |
| Contributor |
Milbert, Jacques Gérard, 1766-1840, artist. |
|
Gaugain, Henri printer. |
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Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer. |
| Title |
Machine à vapeur sur la rivère Schuylkill. = Walet works on the Schuylkill River. = Machina vapore foeta juxta amnen Schuylkill.
= Dampfmachine am Schuykill. [graphic] / Lithographié par Arnout; dessiné d'apres nature par J. Milbert.
|
| Publisher |
Paris: Imprimerie lithog. de H. Gaugain |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1828-1829 |
| Date |
[1828-1829] |
| Physical Description |
1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 32 x 41 cm.(12.5 x 16.25 in.) |
| Description |
Landscape view looking northwest from Reservoir Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822
after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, and race bridge. Also shows
visitors strolling the landscaped grounds of the works and on a walkway on Fairmount; cows grazing on an adjacent plot of
land; residences, including probably Lemon Hill, along the bucolic banks of the Schuylkill River; and the river dam.
|
| Is referenced by |
See Deak 299 |
| Notes |
Published in Itinéraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson (Paris: H. Gaugain, 1828-29), no. 50. |
|
Printed above the image: 13e,, Livraison. Amérique Septentrionale - État de Pensylvanie. Pl. 2. |
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Printed below image: No. 50. |
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Not in Wainwright. |
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Philadelphia on Stone |
|
POS 446/447 |
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Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21: 84, uncolored. |
|
Milbert, a French naturalist, artist, and scholar, traveled through the Northeastern United States 1815-1823. |
| Subject |
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Recreation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Dams -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Locks (Hydraulic engineering) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Schuylkill River (Pa.) |
|
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1820-1830. |
|
Landscape prints -- 1820-1830. |
| Associated name |
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Public Utilities - F [P.9965.3; P.9210.14] |
| Accession number |
P.9965.3 |
|
P.9210.14 |
