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Boston, from the ship house, west end of the navy yard / painted by W.J. Bennett ; engd. by W.J. Bennett. – Vintage Print

Boston, from the ship house, west end of the navy yard / painted by W.J. Bennett ; engd. by W.J. Bennett., New York : Published by H.I. Megarey, c1833 ( Printed by J. Neale) — historic print
Boston, from the ship house, west end of the navy yard / painted by W.J. Bennett ; engd. by W.J. Bennett., New York : Published by H.I. Megarey, c1833 ( Printed by J. Neale). 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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Step back in time with Boston, from the ship house, west end of the navy yard / painted by W.J. Bennett ; engd. by W.J. Bennett., a historic print 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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From the ship house at the west end of the navy yard, this aquatint looks across the water toward Boston, with boats and shipping filling the harbor in the foreground. The navy yard in question stood on the Charlestown side of the Charles River, a working shipyard where vessels were built and repaired in the early republic. W.J. Bennett both painted and engraved the scene, which H.I. Megarey published in New York in 1833, with the color impression printed by J. Neale. The watercolor added by hand to the aquatint gives the harbor its tones and makes the view a useful record of Boston's waterfront in the 1830s.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by H.I. Megarey, c1833 ( Printed by J. Neale)
Medium1 print : aquatint with watercolor.
GenreAquatints Color 1830-1840.
NotesTitle from item. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1833 by H.I Megarey in the Clerks Office of the district court of the southern district of New York. Library has two impressions, one color and one b&w. DLC Color impression printed by J. Neale. Publisher statement printed with different type for each impression. B&w impression inscribed in ink: Deposited in U.S. Cle. office [?] Dist. N. York Feb. 26th 1833. F.J. Belts Clk.
SubjectsWaterfronts--Massachusetts--Boston--1830-1840. Boats--Massachusetts--Boston--1830-1840. Harbors--Massachusetts--Boston--1830-1840. Boston (Mass.)--1830-1840.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174008

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