View of the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, from the Opposite Side of the Schuylkill River

9 cm in width, as recorded in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s catalogue entry for the painting’s dimensions and medium.

The work is painted in oil on canvas and measures 53.6 cm in height by 73.9 cm in width, as recorded in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s catalogue entry for the painting’s dimensions and medium.

Technically, the handling is consistent with early American landscape practice, employing smooth, blended passages for sky and water that dissolve into soft atmospheric effects, while foliage and architectural elements are rendered with more deliberate, textured strokes. The composition balances broad recession into the distance with carefully placed staffage figures, including a lone man near the riverbank, to anchor the scene’s tranquil mood.

There is no indication in the cited sources of specific condition issues or conservation treatments, and the image is described as depicting sky, clouds, river, trees, hills, the Fairmount Waterworks, the Schuylkill River, a man, and bark.