Boston, from City Point near Sea Street / painted by W.J. Bennett ; engd. by W.J. Bennett. – Vintage 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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Boston, from City Point near Sea Street / painted by W.J. Bennett ; engd. by W.J. Bennett. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Boston, from City Point near Sea Street / painted by W.J. Bennett ; engd. by W.J. Bennett.
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Bennett's view looks across City Point, the peninsula at the South Boston end of the city's harbor front, and takes in the windmills and moored boats that marked the shore there. The aquatint was painted and engraved by W.J. Bennett and published in New York by Henry I. Megarey in 1833, a period when Boston's waterfront was a busy commercial edge of shipping, wharves and small industry. Prints like this, colored by hand, gave urban-minded buyers a lively picture of a port city that was growing quickly in the early nineteenth century.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Henry I. Megarey, c1833. |
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| Medium | 1 print : aquatint with watercolor. |
| Genre | Aquatints Color 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Title 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 B&w impression inscribed in ink: Dep. Oct. 5. Clerk Office South Dist. N.Y. |
| Subjects | Windmills--Massachusetts--Boston--1830-1840. Boats--Massachusetts--Boston--1830-1840. Harbors--Massachusetts--Boston--1830-1840. Boston (Mass.)--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,125 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111947 |
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