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Title: [Nude figure studies]
Description: Collection of nude figure studies by lithographer Augustus Kollner. Most, if not all, of the studies were likely executed for the life class at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine arts. Includes two female studies and two male studies. The first female study [P.2017.8.18] shows a nude woman seated on her side, her legs outstretched, and leaning on her left hand. Her right hand stretched down to her calf. Her light-shaded hair is pulled back Grecian-style and she lies in front of a draped stand. The second female study [P.2017.8.19] shows a woman lying on her back, her head resting on her right hand that is bent at the elbow, and with her eyes closed. Her dark-shaded hair is worn in a low bun, her legs are crossed at the ankles, and her left hand rests on her left thigh. A less-detailed, ink-drawn, vignette-size, bust-length study of the woman is visible in the lower left corner. The first male study [P.2017.8.20] shows a nearly nude man, a loin cloth at his waist, sitting with his legs open on a draped seat. He is slightly hunched over and rests the left side of his face on his left hand curled into a fist with his left elbow resting on his knee. His right arm is bent at the elbow with his right hand resting on his right knee. His dark-shaded hair is parted to the right. The second male study [P.2017.8.21], a profile, shows a nude man, semi-seated on a platform, with his upper body leaning to his left and with his left leg extended behind him. He rests his arms on the edge and side of the platform. He has short, dark-shaded hair and a mustache. The genitalia of the three figures without a loin cloth is shaded in shadow., Dates of two of the drawings [P.2017.8.18-19] inferred from the accompanying dated drawings., P.2017.8.21 inscribed in lower right: Jany 1867., P.2017.8.22 inscribed in lower left: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Kollner Feby 4, 1867 Phila., Drawings are trimmed., 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: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Kollner [P.2017.8.19-22]

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: At the close of the day, 200 Berlin Rd, Haddonfield, N.J., Feb. 17, 1882
Description: Pencil sketch of scene showing a horse-drawn cart and man shepherding a cow traveling on Berlin Road and in front of a three-story, Victorian-style residence. An ornamental fence lines the property. Two women sit on rockers on the porch and near the open front door of the residence. Trees adorn the property. In the left background, two men row a boat on a waterway., Artist's signature lower left corner., Title from manuscript note on verso of item., Manuscript note on verso: Abbie A. Peacock. No. 31. Original., Date from title., Caption in pencil lower right: Berlin Road., Scribbling in pencil lower left corner., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Abigail "Abbie" A. Peacock (1864-1927) was an artist who trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women 1880-1884. A resident of Friends Insane Asylum, Philadelphia by 1900, Peacock later was a resident of the Camden County Hospital for the Insane beginning in 1905.
Creator: Peacock, Abigail A., 1864-1927, artist
Date: [February 17, 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.61.7]

Title: Too late. Kings Highway, Haddonfield, N.J. Dec. 1, 1882
Description: Pencil sketch of scene looking down King's Highway toward a train traveling past the partially visible train station. A woman pedestrian attired in a shawl and bonnet walks on the sidewalk past the side of a building, toward the moving train in the left. In the right, a man pedestrian attired in a jacket, pants, and wide -brimmed hat and followed by a girl pedestrian holding a package toward her chest walk on the opposite sidewalk, near a tree, away from the train. The girl wears a cap, overcoat, and calf-length skirt., Artist's signature lower right corner., Title from manuscript note on recto of item., Manuscript note on verso: Abbie A. Peacock, Designing Room, Dec. 1, 1882. Original., Date from title., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Abigail "Abbie" A. Peacock (1864-1927) was an artist who trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women 1880-1884. A resident of Friends Insane Asylum, Philadelphia by 1900, Peacock later was a resident of the Camden County Hospital for the Insane beginning in 1905.
Creator: Peacock, Abigail A., 1864-1927, artist
Date: [December 1, 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.61.8]

Title: Babylonian bargaining
Description: Drawing depicting two men bargaining in ancient Babylon. In the left, shows the man wearing long hair and a beard and attired in a cap and robe, standing with his right hand up negiotating. In the right, the man, wearing a beard and attired in a headdress and robe, leans foward with his right hand towards the man. He rests his left hand on a woman kneeling with a young child. In the background, a man stands with three camels in front of buildings., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.1]

Title: Caught
Description: Drawing depicting a young white girl, in front of a small garden of flower bushes, and holding up a flower to her mother who stands in the doorway of a residence. In the left, the girl holds a flower up with her right hand near a basket of picked flowers and several flowers lying on the ground. In the right, in the doorway the mother, portrayed with an expression of dismay on her face, raises both her hands up. Image also includes a residence in the left background., Title and date from item., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2020., Abigail "Abbie" A. Peacock (1864-1927) was an artist who trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women 1880-1884. A resident of Friends Insane Asylum, Philadelphia by 1900, Peacock later was a resident of the Camden County Hospital for the Insane beginning in 1905.
Creator: Peacock, Abigail A., 1864-1927, artist
Date: April 13, 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2020.40.14]

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