View of the seat of his excellency John Hancock Esqr., Boston / Hill, del. et sculp. – 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.)
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Step back in time with View of the seat of his excellency John Hancock Esqr., Boston / Hill, del. et sculp., a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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View of the seat of his excellency John Hancock Esqr., Boston / Hill, del. et sculp.
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Rather than a street scene or a portrait, this frontispiece shows the mansion itself, the seat of John Hancock, the merchant and politician who was serving as governor of Massachusetts when the plate appeared. The house stood on Beacon Street overlooking the Boston Common, an address Hancock inherited from his uncle Thomas Hancock. Hill drew and engraved the etching for the July 1789 issue of the *Massachusetts Magazine*, a monthly published in Boston by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. The house was demolished in the nineteenth century, so the print is valuable as a record of a building that no longer stands.
| Created / published | 1789 July. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Genre | Frontispieces 1780-1790.Periodical illustrations 1780-1790.Etchings 1780-1790. |
| Notes | Title from item. Engraved for Massachusetts Magazine July 1789. Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, vol. I, no. VII, 1789 (July), frontispiece. Stauffer, 1406 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. 518. |
| Subjects | Hancock, John,--1737-1793--Homes & haunts. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,104 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122729 |
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