Photo, Print, Drawing Fairmount Waterworks. From the Forebay. Fairmount Waterworks. From the forebay
About this Item
Title
- Fairmount Waterworks. From the Forebay.
Other Title
- Fairmount Waterworks. From the forebay
Summary
- This lithograph is a partial view of the Fairmount Waterworks, on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, one of America's earliest municipal water-treatment systems. Powered consecutively by steam engines, waterwheels, and pumps that lifted water to reservoirs on a hill (Faire Mount), the waterworks and its beautiful setting were a tourist attraction from the beginning. They are seen here from the forebay, the reservoir from which the water was drawn to run the equipment. The plant was designed by Frederick Graff, and the result was an innovative engineering success and beautiful buildings reflecting the contemporary fashion for Greek Revival architecture. The lithograph is by George Lehman (circa 1800--70), a Swiss-born landscape artist, engraver, and lithographer, who in 1824 immigrated to the United States with his family, several of whom were also stonecutters. It was published by Childs and Inman, a partnership between Philadelphia engraver and lithographer Cephas G. Childs and New York portrait painter Henry Inman, and one of the earliest important lithographic firms in Philadelphia. The partnership was active 1830-33.
Names
- Lehman, George, circa 1800-1870 Artist.
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : C.G. Childs & G. Lehman, 1833.
Headings
- - United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- - 1833
- - Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- - Lithographs
- - Schuylkill River (Pennsylvania)
- - Waterworks
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Digital catalog number: POS 240.1"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 21 x 29 centimeters.
- - Reference extracted from World Digital Library: George Lehman, Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary, Library Company of Philadelphia, http://www.lcpdigital.org.|Philadelphia External on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers, http://www.librarycompany.org/pos/posdictionary.htm. External
- - Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
- - Content in English.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Philadelphia on Stone
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021670206
Online Format
- compressed data
- image