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View of the Old Brick Meeting House in Boston, 1808 / drawn by I.R. Smith ; engraved by J. Kidder. – Historic Photograph Print

View of the Old Brick Meeting House in Boston, 1808 / drawn by I.R. Smith ; engraved by J. Kidder., [between 1810 and 1840] — historic print
View of the Old Brick Meeting House in Boston, 1808 / drawn by I.R. Smith ; engraved by J. Kidder., [between 1810 and 1840]. Historic print from the Boston collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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View of the Old Brick Meeting House in Boston, 1808 / drawn by I.R. Smith ; engraved by J. Kidder. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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View of the Old Brick Meeting House in Boston, 1808 / drawn by I.R. Smith ; engraved by J. Kidder.

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The Old Brick Meeting House, a Congregational church that stood in Boston's downtown district, is shown here as it looked in 1808, when this view was drawn by I.R. Smith. J. Kidder then engraved the plate in aquatint, a technique that builds up tone with fine grains of resin rather than hard lines. That soft, wash-like finish suited early American architectural views, which often aimed to show a building as a respected civic landmark. The print was issued some years later, between 1810 and 1840, and it offers a useful record of a Boston church during the city's early nineteenth-century growth.

Created / published[between 1810 and 1840]
Medium1 print : aquatint.
GenreAquatints 1810-1840.
SubjectsChurches--Massachusetts--Boston--1800-1810.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,003 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168054

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