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Title: [Dante Alighieri] Note: As the name of this celebrated poet is interwoven into the background work of this copy it was deemed superfluous of repetition underneath
Description: Ink-drawn portrait showing a right-profile, bust-portrait of the major Italian poet who wrote the long narrative poem "The Divine Comedy." Depicts the poet wearing a tunic, and on his head, a coife under a hood with a tippet that is also adorned with a laurel wreath. His eye is rendered statuary-like and without a pupil. The background is comprised of overlapping hatch marks. The portrait is possibly after the frontispiece portrait by Gustave Doré in his illustrated folio of the poet's work "Inferno" (1861)., Title from manuscript note below image and partially supplied by cataloger., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Augustus Kollner (1813-1906) a German-born and trained Philadelphia lithographer began to focus his career more on drawing and painting in the 1860s. In 1861 Kollner enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine arts life class and continued to take the class until at least 1867. Kollner also exhibited genre, historical, and landscape drawings at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1865 and 1868.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Kollner [P.2017.8.23]

Title: Double Head Study of an Older and a Young Woman
Description: Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Label on the verso from Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, N.J.) (Double Head Study), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ethan D. Alyea. 1964.51., Bust-length, forward-facing portrait study of two white women. In the left, shows an older woman with brown ringlet curls framing her forehead and attired in a white lace day cap tied in a bow under her chin and a dark-colored dress with a white lace collar. In the right, shows a young woman with her dark brown hair parted in the middle and tied back and attired in dress with a white neckline. There is an additional portrait of a woman on the verso of the canvas. A cut out in the frame reveals the eyes of the portrait. A photocopy reproduction is taped to the back. Bust-length portrait of a white woman with her blonde hair tied back and attired in drop earrings, a multi-stranded necklace, and a light blue dress.
Date: ca. 1830s-1840s
Location: OBJ 922

Title: J. H. Preston and J. Connor's imprisoned for evacuating Fort Mifflin
Description: Pencil drawing showing two men, in a cinder-block cell, seated on the floor and with a ball and chain around one of each of their wrists. The man in the left, wears a mustache, and sits with his left knee bent and his right leg outstretched. He leans on his right hand to which the ball and chain are attached to that wrist. He wears a jacket, vest, cravat, pants, and shoes. The man in the right has very wavy hair, sits with his knees bent and his arms wrapped around them. His ball and chain is attached to his left wrist. He wears a flouncy-sleeved shirt, vest, breeches, and boots. In the left of the cell is a window with bars. A man, attired in a hat and coat, points and shouts through the bars., Title inscribed in ink below drawing., Date from manuscript note below image: received Septem 3/63., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - A-Z - Preston [P.2017.8.25]

Title: Zephaniah Hopper
Description: Half-length portrait of the Central High School professor and the "Grand Old Man of Philadelphia Schools." Shows the older, grey-haired Hopper, wearing a beard, wire-rimmed glasses, a bow tie, white shirt, vest, and jacket, looking forward. Hopper served as Professor of Mathematics at Central High School 1854-1913. He also taught at the Artisans' Night School 1869-1897., Title and artist from label on verso listing the 24 portraits exhibited. Includes: 1. Mr. David H. Lane; 2. William H. Staake, Esq.; 3. Mr. Clarence S. Bement; 4. Col. Wm H. Patterson; 5. Mr. Samuel R. Shipley; 6. Abraham L. English, Esq.; 7. Charles Henry Hart, Esq.; 8. Joseph M. Fox, Esq.; 9. Dr. Robert Ellis Thompson; 10. Rev. Dr. M. Jastrow; Mr. D. McN. Stauffer; 12. Mr. Max Rosenthal; 13. Dr. John Yorks; 14. George G. Perie, Esq.; 15. Prof. Zephaniah Hopper; 16. Mr. Garfield M. Rosenthal; 17. Mr. A. R. Kellar; 18. Mr. A. Bryan Wall; 19. Mr. Frederick T. Richards; 20. Mrs. W.; 21. Mrs. R.; 22. Miss S.; 23 Alberta; 24. Mrs. A. R., Manuscript note on verso: Dr. Zephaniah Hopper born Phila. Sept 9, 1824, graduate of 1st class of Central High School. He was a professor of mathematics at CHS for over 50 yrs., Gift of David Doret., Forms part of the David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection., See "Architects' Display at the Art Club." Philadelphia Inquirer, January 11, 1903, 11. Copy at repository.
Creator: Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939, artist
Date: [1903]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - A-Z - Hopper [P.2017.15.8]

Title: William Penn in prison
Description: Full-length portrait of William Penn in a prison cell at the Tower of London. Penn sits with his legs crossed on a bench covered in straw and holds a paper reading, No Cross, No Crown. In the left is a wooden table. The stone cell has two small windows. Penn was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1668 where he wrote, No Cross, No Crown, which was later published in 1669., Title from manuscript note written under the image., Date inferred from the style of drawing., Ambiguous manuscript note written under the image: Original contemporary drawing. Very rare., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.8]

Title: [Sketchbook of Europe, Boston, and the Philadelphia area]
Description: Sketchbook containing pencil and ink drawings of ships, landscapes, sites in Paris, Boston, and the Philadelphia area, including exterior views of buildings and architectural features, and portraits. Sketches include: [Ships on the water]; Willow Tree, Chester Park 6/13/19; Hunting the Hun; Bridge Chester Park June 13, 1919; Musée de Cluny, Paris 7/17/20; 15th Cent. Well-Head from house near Amboise, Musée de Cluny 7/23/20; Top of Stair Tower, Musée de Cluny, Paris 8-10-20; [Exterior view of the wall with windows, probably Musée de Cluny]; Arc de Triomph Aug. 4, 1920; Musée de Cluny 7/4/20; South Side, Notre Dame, Paris, D.R.C.-Aug. 12-1920; Main Door of Deshong Art Gall., Chester, Pa.; Old Friend's Meeting House, Providence Road, Media, 1682, 11/14/20; Stable-Bartram's Gardens 5/21/21; Palmer's Mills, Crum Creek 11/21/20; Paul Taylor at Bartram's Gardens May 21, 1921; Doorway- Bartram's May 21, 1921; D.R.C. by Paul Taylor Bartram's - May 21-'21; [Portrait of a woman resting her head on her hand] 8/21/21; Park Street Church, Boston, Mass. - 8/25/'21; Hancock L.I. Building from Cloister of Trinity Church, Boston 9/1/'21; [exterior view of an unidentified building] 9/3/'21; Charles St. Church, Boston - Sept. 10-'21; Old House Newton Upper Falls, Mass. - 9/18/21; Hinge & Lock on Central Door Trinity Church - Boston, Boston Library Part 1; Elmus Americanus; Plan Pantheon., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from dates written on individual sketches., Cloth binding with "Sketches" embossed on the front cover and stamped "D.R. Cochran" on the back cover., Label pasted on endpaper: F. Weber & Co. Sketch Book. 9 x 6" - Each 30 cts., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Donald Robb Cochran (1897-1986) was born in Chester, Pa. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture in 1921. From 1921 to 1923, he worked as a draftsman at the Boston firm of Frohman, Robb & Little. He then worked at the Philadelphia firm Mellor, Meigs & Howe until 1932. In 1933, he joined Sun Oil Co. as a staff architect.
Creator: Cochran, Donald Robb, 1897-1986
Date: 1919-1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – albums [P.2022.62.3.50]

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