View of the city of Boston from Dorchester heights / painted & engraved by Robt. Havell ; coloured by Havell & Spearing. – Antique Photo 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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This rare historic print captures View of the city of Boston from Dorchester heights / painted & engraved by Robt. Havell ; coloured by Havell & Spearing. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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View of the city of Boston from Dorchester heights / painted & engraved by Robt. Havell ; coloured by Havell & Spearing.
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Dorchester Heights, the hill south of Boston harbor, gives this aquatint its vantage point, looking down over the city and its waterfront. The hill is best remembered for March 1776, when Continental forces under George Washington fortified it and set up guns that threatened British positions in the harbor, leading to the British evacuation of Boston that month. Robert Havell, an English-born engraver who had worked on the large bird's-eye views of American cities, made the print in New York around 1841, and it was colored by hand, a common finish for views sold to a middle-class market.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Robt. Havell, 172 Fulton St., c1841 (Printed by W. Neale) |
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| Medium | 1 print : aquatint, color. |
| Genre | Bird's-eye views 1840-1850.Cityscape prints 1840-1850.Aquatints Color 1840-1850. |
| Notes | 1322 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1841 by Robt. Havell in the District Clerk's office of the United States for the Southern District of N. York. |
| Subjects | Harbors--Massachusetts--Boston--1840-1850. Boston (Mass.)--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,099 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111104 |
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