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Contributor Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, printer.
Title [A View of the Fairmount Waterworks with Schuylkill in the distance. Taken from the mount.] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: Printed and published by J. T. Bowen]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1838
Date [c1838]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 37 x 54 cm. (14.63 x 21.75 in.)
Description View looking northwest from Fairmount showing the Fairmount Waterworks, including the engine house, millhouse, race bridge, and mound dam. Vistors stroll on the grounds near the engine house and across the promenade of the mill house. Bushes, trees, and rocks dominate the foreground. In the right, a man stands in the gazebo on the partially visible mount. On the bucolic west bank, the superintendant’s house of the Schuylkill Navigation Company stands across from the canal lock. In the river, sailboats and a rowboat travel and two teams of scullers drill near docks adjacent to the waterworks and bordering the east river bank on which two buildings stand. A twilight sky forms the horizon. The Fairmount Water Works were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff.
Is referenced by Wainwright 9
Notes Title and publication information supplied from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 797
LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 88 B786.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Schuylkill Navigation Company -- Buildings.
Canals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Locks (Hydraulic engineering) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Team rowing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gazebos -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1820-1830.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W9 [P.2006]
Accession number P.2006