Lansdowne in Winter watercolor, 1836


Permanent ID:
3093
Call number:
K: 2-24
Date:
February 1836
Image Description:
A winter scene; a yellow two-story mansion with white trim on a snow-covered hill. Bare trees and open fields surround the house, and in the foreground of the image there is a frozen body of water. People stand near the ice.
Inscription:
Lansdowne, in Winter. The Residence of the Hon. John Penn Lieut. Governor of Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1776.- was visited by Washington in 1787. died in 1795 and his body taken to England and there buried,
Mansion 114 feet above water level, the entrance was on the left of the picture through a lane of Catalpa trees, north of the junction of what is now (in 1874) Elm and Belmont Avenues.- taken from an old sketch by W. Birch by D.J. Kennedy. Accidentally burned, July 4. 1854.
(Front Bottom)
Address:
Elm and Belmont Avenues, Philadelphia
Format:
Watercolors
Dimensions:
Width: 26 cm, Height: 24 cm (image)
Collection:
David J. Kennedy watercolors
Related People or Organizations:
David Johnson Kennedy, 1816-1898 (painter)
Birch, William Russell (artist)
John Penn, 1729-1795 (relates to)
Related Terms:
Landscape painting (is described by)
Mansion (depicts)
Historic building (depicts)
Ice (depicts)
Snow (depicts)