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In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic]. AK.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A64438
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Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Title
In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic]. AK.
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Date
[ca. 1878]
Physical Description
3 prints: lithograph; 10 x 15 cm.(4 x 5.75 in.) or smaller.
Description
Landscape views showing "Belmont Prospect (1848)"; "Above Girard Bridge East"; and "Above Columbia Bridge." Includes a man on horseback approaching the residence, on the plateau, at Belmont, the former estate of Judge Richard Peters; a distant view of the Columbia Bridge (completed 1834) across the Schuylkill River; park visitors; cliffs; rock formations; and trees. Belmont was the country seat of Peters until his death in 1828.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 372a
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 K 8346.86
Biographical / historical note
Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Subject
Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 -- Homes and haunts.
Rock formations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Columbia Railroad Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 61 K 8346.86
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collections
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