Details
Creator Brandard, John, 1812-1863, artist.
Contributor M. & H. Hanhart, printer.
Title Fairmount Gardens, with the Schuylkill Bridge Philadelphia [graphic] / J. Brandard.
Publisher Philadelphia : M. & H. Hanhart. imp
Publisher ENG. London. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph, hand-colored; 29 x 24 cm. (11.5 x 9.5 in.)
Description Anachronistic view showing two ladies and two gentlemen, wearing mid-19th-century attire, on a walkway, surrounded by trees, below the waterworks in Fairmount Garden, i.e. Fairmount Park. Also shows garden visitors near a water fountain and the Upper Ferry Bridge (i.e., Lancaster Schuylkill Bridge) over the Schuylkill River in the background. The bridge erected 1809-1812 with Robert Mills serving as architect, and Lewis Wernwag as engineer, burned in 1838.
Notes Contains partial label pasted on verso: From George S[?] Practical b[?] Polsloe.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 232
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Also issued as sheet music cover by Brewer & Co., 23, Bishopsgate St. witihin E.C. titled "The American Quadrille" by Stephen Glover.
Subject Recreation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Covered bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Fountains -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Chromolithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Landscape prints -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Parks [7970.F]
Accession number 7970.F