Details
Creator Kiehn, Jacob, 1835-1869, artist.
Title [Fairmount [graphic] / J. Kiehn del.]
Publisher [Philadelphia]: Julius Bien chromolith.]
Date [c1867]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph, hand-colored; 31 x 41 cm.(12 x 15.75 in.)
Description View showing a section of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Depicts the terrace roof of the new mill house built on the mound dam from 1860-1862 after the designs of engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Visitors, predominately women with parasols, stroll on the terrace and adjoining promenade roof of the old mill house. Also shows steamboats; boat landings; boathouses; Lemon Hill; the Twenty-Forth Ward Water Works, known as the West Philadelphia Water Works; mills near the Schuylkill Canal Lock; and small sailing vessels on the river.
Notes Title, artist, and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the American Philosophical Society.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 229
Gift of David Doret.
Trimmed.
Reproduced in "The Fairmount Waterworks," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 1988), vol. 84, no. 360, 361, p. 35.
Sketchbook of Jacob Kiehn (1866-1867) with sketches of Fairmount Waterworks held in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (#47, Bd 81 K543).
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Twenty-Forth Ward Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Terraces -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boathouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Locks (Hydraulic engineering) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mills (Hydraulic engineering) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels (Hydraulic engineering) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boat landings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Lemon Hill (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Chromolithograph -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Printer Bien, Julius, 1826-1909, printer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Public utilities [P.2004.44.25]
Accession number P.2004.44.25