[Fire in Philadelphia]
1 drawing : watercolor and graphite heightened with white ; sheet 55.5 x 47 cm. | Drawing shows Weccacoe engine fire fighters and Hibernia fire fighters before the Hope fire station in Philadelphia, which has caught on fire. The fire fighters are operating fire engines to pump water into the building as people in neighboring buildings watch from windows and doorways.
Contributor:
Queen, James Fuller
Date:1850-01-01
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High fall on the Catskills
1 drawing on grey blue wove paper : graphite, charcoal, and lead white ; 42.8 x 24 cm (image), 58.5 x 38.7 cm (cream wove paper mount) | Drawing shows water cascading over cliffs at the Kaaterskill Falls in the Catskill Mountains in New York.
Contributor:
Queen, James Fuller
Date:1850-01-01
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[Mountain resort near the Delaware Water Gap]
1 drawing on cream wove paper : ink wash with blue watercolor over graphite underdrawing ; image 34 x 58.5 cm, on sheet 51 x 69.8 cm. | Drawing shows a large resort building at center flanked by smaller cabins, men and women walk together on the grounds, which includes a large fountain at center of the foreground, smaller outbuildings, gazebos, and paths, with…
Moravian Church, Bethlehem, from the Lehigh, 1850
1 drawing on cream wove paper : graphite ; sheet 25.5 x 16.5 cm. | Drawing shows the Central Moravian Church on Church Street in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; the spire on the belfry rises above the trees, in a park-like setting, with fences in the foreground.
Entrance of Delaware Water Gap, 1850
1 drawing on cream paper : graphite ; sheet 16.5 x 26 cm. | Drawing shows a house, on the left, at the base of a mountain near the bank of the Delaware River, which fills the center of the image; there appears to be a person standing on a rock on the edge of the river at center.
Contributor:
Queen, James Fuller
Date:1850-01-01
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Delaware Water Gap
1 drawing on cream wove paper : graphite ; sheet 16.5 x 26 cm. | Drawing show a sweeping bend in Delaware River with a stand of trees on an embankment on the left and the gap between the mountains visible in the middle distance.
[Lighthouse with outbuildings]
1 drawing on tan paper : graphite, heightened with white chalk ; sheet 8 x 15 cm. | Drawing shows a lighthouse towering above two buildings, possibly dwellings.
Contributor:
Queen, James Fuller
Date:1850-01-01
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[Design drawing for allegory, also sketch of waterfront cityscape]
1 drawing on tan paper : grey and black ink wash, with crayon and graphite ; sheet 17 x 29.5 cm. | Drawing shows a three panel allegorical scene with American Indians at left looking across lake with a canoe, toward buffaloes grazing on the Great Plains above which rise the Rocky Mountains, a Native woman sits and covers her face as if weeping;…
Freeman Rawdon
1 drawing on cream paper : ink wash ; sheet 24.5 x 16 cm. | Drawing shows Freeman Rawdon, bust portrait, facing front, in oval.
Contributor:
Stauffer, David McNeely
Date:1850-01-01
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Massachusetts Charitable Institution
1 drawing : graphite on laid paper ; sheet 32.1 x 39.1 cm | Drawing shows design for medal from the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association depicting a seated woman facing left. To her side is a shield featuring an arm raised with a hammer in hand; at her feet sit tools, including a wheel, square, anvil, and ax; and behind her a train travels…
Pictura vel delineatio hominum nuper ex Anglia AD vectorum una cum corum armis tentoriis, & naviculis
1 drawing on wove paper : ink. | Drawing is a modern copy of the frontispiece to Frobisher's Historia Navigationis, an account of his travels to the Davis Straits area of Greenland the 1570s, showing an Inuit hunting birds from a kayak while another man holds his kayak on the shore. An Inuit woman carries her infant on her back. To the left is…
Photo, Print, Drawing[Western scene with buttes and possibly a pueblo community in the distance, as seen from a ravine with a cottonwood tree] 1 drawing on cream paper : watercolor and graphite ; sheet 27.5 x 44 cm.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Fire in Philadelphia] 1 drawing : watercolor and graphite heightened with white ; sheet 55.5 x 47 cm. | Drawing shows Weccacoe engine fire fighters and Hibernia fire fighters before the Hope fire station in Philadelphia, which has caught on fire. The fire fighters are operating fire engines to pump water into the building as people in neighboring buildings watch from windows and doorways.
Photo, Print, DrawingHigh fall on the Catskills 1 drawing on grey blue wove paper : graphite, charcoal, and lead white ; 42.8 x 24 cm (image), 58.5 x 38.7 cm (cream wove paper mount) | Drawing shows water cascading over cliffs at the Kaaterskill Falls in the Catskill Mountains in New York.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Mountain resort near the Delaware Water Gap] 1 drawing on cream wove paper : ink wash with blue watercolor over graphite underdrawing ; image 34 x 58.5 cm, on sheet 51 x 69.8 cm. | Drawing shows a large resort building at center flanked by smaller cabins, men and women walk together on the grounds, which includes a large fountain at center of the foreground, smaller outbuildings, gazebos, and paths, with…
Photo, Print, Drawing[Camden ferry yard, at right, looking toward Philadelphia] 1 drawing on trace : graphite ; sheet 4.4 x 74 cm.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Study sketches of weeds growing at a door; urn on a bench with a pot and pail beneath, and cup hanging from a nail; a partial bust portrait of a woman wearing … 1 drawing on cream paper : graphite ; sheet 26 x 16.5 cm.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Carriage or fire engine] 1 drawing on grey blue paper : graphite ; sheet 11.5 x 16 cm.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Firefighter standing next to a ladder carriage] 1 drawing on grey blue paper : graphite ; sheet 11.5 x 16.5 cm.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Several firefighters around a hose carriage] 1 drawing on cream paper : graphite ; sheet 15 x 24 cm.
Photo, Print, DrawingMoravian Church, Bethlehem, from the Lehigh, 1850 1 drawing on cream wove paper : graphite ; sheet 25.5 x 16.5 cm. | Drawing shows the Central Moravian Church on Church Street in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; the spire on the belfry rises above the trees, in a park-like setting, with fences in the foreground.
Photo, Print, DrawingLafayette College, Easton and Delaware Bridge from Philipsburg [i.e., Phillipsburg] Rock, New Jer[sey], 1850 1 drawing on cream wove paper : graphite ; sheet 16.5 x 26 cm. | Drawing shows a bird's-eye view of Easton from the New Jersey side of the Delaware River with the covered bridge at center and Lafayette College on a hill in the background.
Photo, Print, DrawingEaston, Pa. from Philipsburg [i.e., Phillipsburg] Rock 1 drawing on cream wove paper : graphite ; sheet 16.5 x 26 cm. | Study sketch shows a bird's-eye view of Easton, Pennsylvania, from across the Delaware River.
Photo, Print, DrawingPhilipsburg Rock, N.J. from "Mount Ida" Easton, Pa., 1850 1 drawing on cream paper : graphite ; sheet 16.5 x 26 cm.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Stone tavern on a dirt road, smoke coming out of chimney at rear of building, sign at front shows a bird riding on the back of an animal] 1 drawing on cream wove paper : graphite ; sheet 16.5 x 26 cm.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Rough sketch of landscape with hills, fields, trees, and the roof of a house] 1 drawing on cream paper : graphite ; sheet 16.5 x 26 cm.
Photo, Print, DrawingEntrance of Delaware Water Gap, 1850 1 drawing on cream paper : graphite ; sheet 16.5 x 26 cm. | Drawing shows a house, on the left, at the base of a mountain near the bank of the Delaware River, which fills the center of the image; there appears to be a person standing on a rock on the edge of the river at center.
Photo, Print, DrawingDelaware Water Gap 1 drawing on cream wove paper : graphite ; sheet 16.5 x 26 cm. | Drawing show a sweeping bend in Delaware River with a stand of trees on an embankment on the left and the gap between the mountains visible in the middle distance.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Trees near a precipice] 1 drawing on cream paper : graphite ; sheet 16.5 x 26 cm.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Lighthouse with outbuildings] 1 drawing on tan paper : graphite, heightened with white chalk ; sheet 8 x 15 cm. | Drawing shows a lighthouse towering above two buildings, possibly dwellings.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Design drawing for allegory, also sketch of waterfront cityscape] 1 drawing on tan paper : grey and black ink wash, with crayon and graphite ; sheet 17 x 29.5 cm. | Drawing shows a three panel allegorical scene with American Indians at left looking across lake with a canoe, toward buffaloes grazing on the Great Plains above which rise the Rocky Mountains, a Native woman sits and covers her face as if weeping;…
Photo, Print, Drawing[George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] 1 drawing : pencil.
Photo, Print, DrawingFreeman Rawdon 1 drawing on cream paper : ink wash ; sheet 24.5 x 16 cm. | Drawing shows Freeman Rawdon, bust portrait, facing front, in oval.
Photo, Print, DrawingMassachusetts Charitable Institution 1 drawing : graphite on laid paper ; sheet 32.1 x 39.1 cm | Drawing shows design for medal from the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association depicting a seated woman facing left. To her side is a shield featuring an arm raised with a hammer in hand; at her feet sit tools, including a wheel, square, anvil, and ax; and behind her a train travels…
Photo, Print, DrawingFranklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, 1824 1 drawing : graphite with ink ; sheet 31.6 x 39.1 cm
Photo, Print, DrawingPictura vel delineatio hominum nuper ex Anglia AD vectorum una cum corum armis tentoriis, & naviculis 1 drawing on wove paper : ink. | Drawing is a modern copy of the frontispiece to Frobisher's Historia Navigationis, an account of his travels to the Davis Straits area of Greenland the 1570s, showing an Inuit hunting birds from a kayak while another man holds his kayak on the shore. An Inuit woman carries her infant on her back. To the left is…