Bits of nature and some art products
Kollner, Augustus
b. 1813
artist
Ellet, Charles
1810-1862
engineer
still image
Graphic
Lithographs -- 1870-1880
pau
Philadelphia
[1878]
1878
monographic
eng
3 prints: lithograph; 10 x 16 cm.(4 x 6.25 in.) or smaller.
Landscape views showing "At South Laurel Hill"; "East of Columbia Bridge"; and "West of Wire Bridge (1842)" in Fairmount Park. Includes a mule driver in front of a hotel, possibly the Upper Ferry Tavern, near the bridge; park visitors; vessels on the Schuylkill River; rock formations; trees; and a cascading brook. The Wire Bridge at Fairmount, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874.
AK.
Not in Wainwright.
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.
Rock formations
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Streams
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Wire Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
HSP Bb 61 K 8346.85
aacr
070530
20231105113040.0
248812
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