Item Info
Item No: pdcp00979
Title: Rittenhouse Square
Additional Title: Lion Crushing a Serpent
Creation Date:
8/10/1959
Historic Street Address: 18th & Walnut Streets
Media Type: Silver Gelatins
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
Photograph shows a frontal view of Lion Crushing a Serpent, one of the many sculptures in Riitenhouse Square. The bronze sculpture, by Antoine Louis Barye (1796-1875), expresses, through allegory, the power of good over evil. The Fairmount Park Association purchased this piece in 1891 and it was placed in the center of Rittenhouse Square in 1893.
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.172060
Geocode Latitude:39.949664