Unidentified
May one see it?
Washington, D.C., United States
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
This portrait shows a young lady standing in front of the Fairmont waterworks building, constructed in 1815 along the Schuylkill River to pump water into Philadelphia’s reservoirs. In 1919, when construction began on the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the architects designed the large neoclassical structure to imitate the temple-like design of the waterworks building close by.
Smithsonian American Art Museum