Details
Contributor V. Quarre Co., printer.
Kirn, Herman, sculptor.
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, publisher.
Title 1776. Centennial Fountain, 1876. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Erected under the auspices of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America. [graphic] / Lith. by V. Quarre Co., Phil.
Publisher Philadelphia: Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date c1875
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 42 x 64 cm.(16.5 x 25.25 in.)
Description View showing the fountain designed in honor of prominent Irish or Catholic Revolutionary heroes that was erected 1875-1877 by the national temperance society at Fountain Avenue and Avenue of the Republic on the Centennial grounds. The monument designed in the shape of a maltese cross by Herman Kirn contains statues of Father Theobold Matthew (Irish temperance reformer), Charles Carroll (only Catholic signer of the Declaration), Commodore Barry (Irish-born naval commander known as the Father of the American Navy), and Archbishop Caroll (first Catholic Bishop of the U.S.) mounted on fountain pedestals. The statues surround the central sculpted figure of Moses who holds the Ten Commandments. The Moses sculpture rests upon a rock-mound within a marble basin. Water flows over the rocks into a pool. Also shows visitors, including a woman with a parasol, strolling around the memorial. Another drinks from a cup at the "Matthew" fountain. The names of the revolutionary heros are printed below the image respective to their corresponding statue.
Notes Presented to James J. Brannen of Pittsburgh, a subscriber.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 2
Subject Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America.
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fountains -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Monuments & memorials -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Catholics -- Commemoration.
Irish -- Commemoration.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- American Revolution, 1774-1783 -- Commemoration.
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Kirn, Herman, sculptor.
Printer Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Centennial [P.2002.28]
Accession number P.2002.28