Brookline, Massachusetts, from above the road, five miles from Boston / Wilkie ; S.E. Brown sc. – Antique Print
![Brookline, Massachusetts, from above the road, five miles from Boston / Wilkie ; S.E. Brown sc., [1854] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3d/3d0eb169527f-L.webp)
(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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This antique engraving of Brookline, Massachusetts, from above the road, five miles from Boston / Wilkie ; S.E. Brown sc. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Brookline, Massachusetts, from above the road, five miles from Boston / Wilkie ; S.E. Brown sc.
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Brookline, five miles from Boston, is shown here from a raised vantage point above the road, a standard device of the bird's-eye views that were popular in the 1850s. The engraving appeared in Gleason's Pictorial in 1854, the illustrated weekly published in Boston that carried views of New England towns and famous buildings. Its signature credits the drawing to Wilkie and the engraving to S.E. Brown. Brookline was then a largely rural town of farms and country estates, and the elevated angle lets the viewer read the street layout, the scattered houses, and the surrounding fields at a glance.
| Created / published | [1854] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1850-1860.Periodical illustrations 1850-1860.Wood engravings 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Illus from: Gleason's pictorial, 1854. |
| Subjects | Brookline (Mass.)--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-184089 |
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