Item 25a: Print titled “Fairmount Waterworks: From the Basin,” by George Lehman (removed to Black Box #1), 1829
Item — Box: 21, Folder: 25a
Dates
- Created: 1829
Creator
- Lehman, George, c. 1830-1870 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Print
Condition Note:
Good.
Measurements:
13 in. x 10 ⅛ in.
Title:
Fairmount Waterworks: From the Basin
Description:
An early print of the Fairmount Waterworks in the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Some people walk to or stand at the waterworks. What appears to be a greenhouse is in the distance. The Fairmount Water Works is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was designed in 1812, being built between 1812 to 1872. It operated until 1909. It followed the yellow fever epidemic in the late 18th century which was thought to be caused by unclean water and rotting matter in the streets at the time. The Water Works were built to try and mend this issue. This print was created by George Lehman and published by Cephas Grier Childs & Robert H. Hobson.
George Lehman, born in c. 1803 in Switzerland, was a lithographer, engraver, aquatintist, and “ornamental painter,” in Philadelphia around 1825-1870. After immigrating to the United States as a “printer,” he arrived at the port of New York on the ship named “Howard” on June 11, 1824. Lehman was also a skillful landscape painter, and exhibited views of not only Switzerland, but Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by 1825. He had also served as the assistant to John James Audubon when he visited Florida from 1831-1832. Lehman eventually partnered with Childs & Lehman from 1833-1834 and later with a French lithographer, P. S. Duval, where they operated Lehman & Duval from 7 Bank Alley from 1835-1837. Born on September 8, 1793 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Cephas Grier Childs, the publisher, was one of the foremost engravers from Philadelphia. He managed early commercial lithograph firms and created many partnerships including: Pendleton, Kearny & Childs (1829-1830), Childs & Inman (1830-1833), and Childs & Lehman (1833-1835). With his skilled artists and lithographers like Albert Newsam, P. S. Duval and Henry Inman, Childs constructed a growth of popularity for the lithograph medium in Philadelphia.
Richard H. Hobson, the other publisher, was born in England during the 1780s and during the antebellum-era, a Philadelphia fancy, stationary, and print store proprietor.
Location:
Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Transcription:
Geo. Lehman {illegible}
Philad. Pub. by C.G. Childs, & R.H. Hobson, 1829.
FAIRMOUNT WATERWORKS
From the Basin.
Creator
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu