Bird's eye view of Boston / drawn from nature and on stone by J. Bachmann ; lith. of Sarony & Major, New York. – Antique Map Print
(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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Step back in time with Bird's eye view of Boston / drawn from nature and on stone by J. Bachmann ; lith. of Sarony & Major, New York., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Bird's eye view of Boston / drawn from nature and on stone by J. Bachmann ; lith. of Sarony & Major, New York.
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Drawn from an elevated vantage point over the harbor, this color lithograph presents Boston as a sweeping panorama of rooftops, wharves, and the open greenery of its parks. John Bachmann drew the view from nature and worked it directly on stone, and Sarony & Major of New York printed the sheet for his publication around 1850. Bird's-eye views like this were popular in the mid-nineteenth century because they let viewers take in an entire town at once, as if from a high point above it. Its focus on the harbor and parks makes it a useful record of the city's waterfront and open spaces before the rapid growth of the later decades.
| Created / published | New York : Published by John Bachmann, c1850. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color ; 66.5 x 90.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1850.Lithographs Color 1850. |
| Notes | Copyright by John Bachmann. |
| Subjects | Harbors--Massachusetts--Boston--1850. Parks--Massachusetts--Boston--1850. Boston (Mass.)--1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116712 |
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