Old Boston. Beacon Hill from the present site of the reservoir between Hancock & Temple Sts. – Antique Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Old Boston. Beacon Hill from the present site of the reservoir between Hancock & Temple Sts.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Old Boston. Beacon Hill from the present site of the reservoir between Hancock & Temple Sts.
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This view of Beacon Hill is set on the ground between Hancock and Temple streets, where a city water reservoir was later built, which gives it a vantage most other pictures of the hill lack. J.R. Smith made the original drawing on the spot in 1811, and this color lithograph reproduces it as Plate 5 of the *Old Boston* series, published by Smith, Knight & Tappan in 1858. The Massachusetts State House, designed by Charles Bulfinch and completed in the 1790s, rises above the hill, and the print shows the landscape as it looked before much of the hill was cut down during the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | Boston : Smith, Knight & Tappan, c1858 August 5. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, col ; 28.1 (32.4 with text) x 36.8 cm. |
| Genre | Beacon Hill; 2. Capitols--Massachusetts--Boston; 3. Monuments--Massachusetts--Boston; 4. Excavation; I. Smith |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from P&AGA catalog and PGA shelflist cards. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford, J.H. From a drawing made on the spot by J.R. Smith in 1811 |
| Subjects | 12." Plate 5. Copyright by Geo. G. Smith. P&AGA card tracings: 1. Massachusetts--Boston |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,309 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109861 |
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