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Potter's Field watercolor, 1891

Permanent ID:
4525
Call number:
K: VI-39
Date:
June 1 1891
Image Description:
Large, kept green lawn with a white fence. At one end of the lawn are lines of tombstones; at the other end is a small building. A mother and child walk through the lines of tombstones.
Inscription:
Potters Field. Bounded on the North by Lehigh Avenue, West by 22nd St. South by connecting R.R. to N.Y. Here were buried the soldiers who died in the U.S. Hospitals at 16th and Filbert Streets & Broad & Cherry during the Southern Rebellion in 1863 & 4. D.J. Kennedy.
O for the light that went out when they perished,- Who slumber in silence the long years away,- Long, long may their memory be tenderly cherished,- Who sleep in the graves which we ponder today. (Front Bottom)
Address:
22nd Street and Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia
Format:
Watercolors
Dimensions:
Width: 49 cm, Height: 26 cm (case)
Collection:
David J. Kennedy watercolors
Related Person or Organization:
David Johnson Kennedy, 1816-1898 (artist)
Related Terms:
Watercolors (is described by)
Cemetery (depicts)