View of Faneuil-Hall in Boston, Massachusetts / W. Pierpont del. ; S. Hill sculp. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: View of Faneuil-Hall in Boston, Massachusetts / W. Pierpont del. ; S. Hill sculp., preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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View of Faneuil-Hall in Boston, Massachusetts / W. Pierpont del. ; S. Hill sculp.
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Faneuil Hall, the market house and meeting hall on Dock Square in Boston, is the subject of this 1789 etching, which served as the frontispiece to the March issue of The Massachusetts Magazine. Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews published the monthly from Boston, and the engraving shows the building as it stood in the years after the Revolution, when town meetings there had long been a center of colonial protest. Drawn by W. Pierpont and engraved by S. Hill, it is one of the earlier printed views of the hall, and it gives a sense of how the city presented its best-known civic landmark to readers in the new republic.
| Created / published | 1789 March. |
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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 Mag. March 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. III, 1789 (March), frontispiece. Stauffer, 1402 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. 514. |
| Subjects | Faneuil Hall (Boston, Mass.)--1780-1790. Markets--Massachusetts--Boston.--1780-1790. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,201 × 4,184 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122728 |
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