Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813 artist.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Title Fairmount. [graphic] / Kollner, Phila.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date [ca. 1878]
Physical Description 1 print: transfer lithograph; 9 x 13 cm.(6.25 x 5.25 in.)
Description View looking south from the east bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works built 1812-1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff. Shows the engine house; mill house; and the pavilions on the mound dam and on Reservoir Hill. Also shows the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount in the far right background.
Notes Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 226
Biographical / historical note Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Transfer lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.10c]
Accession number (8)1322.F.10c