[View from Beacon Hill] – Historic Print
![[View from Beacon Hill], [between 1775 and 1780] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/62/622f4842b943-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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Step back in time with [View from Beacon Hill], a historic drawing rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[View from Beacon Hill]
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Few places in Boston carried more meaning for its people than Beacon Hill, the rise on the Shawmut Peninsula where a signal beacon had stood since the 1630s to warn of danger. This ink and watercolor drawing, made sometime between 1775 and 1780, looks out over the town from that height during the years when Boston was the center of the conflict between the colonists and British troops. The Siege of Boston and the British evacuation in March 1776 left the city scarred by war and occupation, and a view from the hill of the period captures that uneasy moment. The drawing is worth a close look for how the watercolor washes set the town's rooftops and streets against open sky.
| Created / published | [between 1775 and 1780] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink and watercolor. |
| Genre | Watercolors 1770-1780.Landscape drawings Color 1770-1780. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. 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. 494. |
| Subjects | Boston (Mass.)--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 710 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173548 |
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