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Green Hill, the seat of Samuel Meredith Esqr. near Philadelphia / J. Hoffman del. ; S. Hill sc. – Antique Wall Art

Green Hill, the seat of Samuel Meredith Esqr. near Philadelphia / J. Hoffman del. ; S. Hill sc., [1792] — historic print
Green Hill, the seat of Samuel Meredith Esqr. near Philadelphia / J. Hoffman del. ; S. Hill sc., [1792]. Historic print from the Philadelphia 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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This rare historic print captures Green Hill, the seat of Samuel Meredith Esqr. near Philadelphia / J. Hoffman del. ; S. Hill sc. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Green Hill, the seat of Samuel Meredith Esqr. near Philadelphia / J. Hoffman del. ; S. Hill sc.

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Green Hill was the country seat of Samuel Meredith, a Philadelphia merchant and Revolutionary War officer who later served as the first Treasurer of the United States. This etching, drawn by J. Hoffman and engraved by S. Hill, ran as the frontispiece of the October 1792 issue of *The Massachusetts Magazine*, so it reached readers far from Pennsylvania. Its appearance in a Boston periodical reflects the late-eighteenth-century taste for showing prominent citizens' estates in engraved views. The piece is a useful record of how a gentleman's house and grounds were presented to the public in the years after independence.

Created / published[1792]
Medium1 print : etching.
GenreFrontispieces 1790-1800.Periodical illustrations 1790-1800.Etchings 1790-1800.
NotesMassa. Mag. Illus. in: The Massachusetts Magazine, or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment. Boston : Isaih Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1792 v. 4, no. 10 (October), frontispiece.
SubjectsMeredith, Samuel,--1741-1817--Homes & haunts. Estates--Pennsylvania--1790-1800. Dwellings--Pennsylvania--1790-1800.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,044 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117018

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