View of Providence, Rhode Island – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: View of Providence, Rhode Island, preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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View of Providence, Rhode Island
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Drawn in pencil on June 29, 1809, this sketch shows Providence, Rhode Island, at a moment when the town was growing into one of New England's busiest seaports. It belongs to the John Rubens Smith Collection, which holds the English-born artist's detailed drawings of American towns and landscapes made in the first decade of the 1800s. Smith's work from these years is valued as an early record of how American cities looked before industrialization transformed them. The drawing was later reproduced in *Eyes of the Nation*, a 1997 survey of American visual history, which helps place it within the broader record of the young republic.
| Created / published | 1809 June 29. |
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| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Genre | Cityscape drawings 1800-1810.Drawings 1800-1810. |
| Notes | John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Providence (R.I.)--1800-1810. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,409 × 1,138 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217658 |
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