Watercolor landscape showing an exterior view of the Excursion House or hotel built by Davis Knauer in 1881 in Saint Peters at the Falls of French Creek in Warwick Township, Pennsylvania. Shows the four-story building with several people on the covered porches and a horse tied to a post at the front entrance. A horse-drawn cart carrying two people travels down the road in front of the hotel. In the foreground are large rocks protuding from the hillside, and a man with a walking stick sits on a rock with his dog. Hills of trees grow in the background., Title and date from manuscript note written on verso., Label from Hirscl & Adler Galleries Inc., 21 East 67th Street, New York 21, N.Y. in accession file., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Augustus Kollner was born in Germany and settled in Philadelphia in 1840. An artist, lithographer, and etcher, Kollner produced series of lithographs, etchings, and watercolors in the 1870s and 1890s after sketches he executed in the 1840s. Subjects included Fairmount Park and Pennsylvania.
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, 1812-1906, artist
Date
[ca. 1884]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.17]
