View of the court house in Salem Massachusetts / W. Gray, del. ; engraved by S. Hill. – Historic Photo Reproduction
![View of the court house in Salem Massachusetts / W. Gray, del. ; engraved by S. Hill., [1790] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3e/3e2fd96cfae2-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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A window into the past: View of the court house in Salem Massachusetts / W. Gray, del. ; engraved by S. Hill., preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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View of the court house in Salem Massachusetts / W. Gray, del. ; engraved by S. Hill.
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The March 1790 issue of *The Massachusetts Magazine* opened with this engraving of the courthouse in Salem, a view drawn by W. Gray and engraved by S. Hill. The open plaza around the building shows the civic space that surrounded such structures in the period. Salem was then a prosperous Atlantic port, and the magazine, published in Boston by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, offered its readers images of familiar towns alongside its essays and miscellany.
| Created / published | [1790] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Genre | Frontispieces 1790.Periodical illustrations 1790.Etchings 1790. |
| Notes | Title from item. Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, vol. II, no. III, 1790 (March), frontispiece. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 482. |
| Subjects | Courthouses--Massachusetts--Salem--1790. Plazas--Massachusetts--Salem--1790. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,105 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116935 |
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