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Print Title: VIEW OF THE DAM AND WATER WORKS AT FAIR MOUNT, PHILADELPHIA Description:
The engraving by R. Campbell is after a painting by Thomas Birch, published 1824. It inscribed lower left Drawn by T. Birch, lower right, Engraved by R. Campbell, and beneath the title, Published by Edwd. Parker, 1824.
The engraving is made after an oil painting by Thomas Birch, Fairmount Water Works, 1821, Oil on canvas, in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, was designed in 1812 by Frederick Graff. It was Philadelphia’s second municipal waterworks, set on the Schuylkill River in grounds that eventually became a public park of over 4,000 acres. Almost immediately it became a tourist attraction, an indispensable stop on the route of foreign and native tourists traveling through America.
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