2-752-336 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'View from West Park', 1874. Sheep grazing at Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 'Perhaps among the noblest views which are afforded by the rich variety of the Fairmount country is one to be gained from the West Park...The eye, wandering over an expanse of billowy foliage, descries in the distance the roofs and spires of the fair city, and the smoke of industry arising from a hundred tall chimneys. Near the centre of this scene arises a graceful and varied architectural grouping, formed by the tower of the Masonic Temple, the sharp spire of the adjacent church, and the swelling dome of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. These buildings...seem to form one group, and in their proud majesty dominate the entire city'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]