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View of Baltimore – Antique Photo Print

View of Baltimore — antique engraving
View of Baltimore. Antique engraving from the Baltimore 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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View of Baltimore comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Steel engraver S. Fisher translated a drawing by William Henry Bartlett into this view of Baltimore, one of the many American scenes gathered in Nathaniel Parker Willis's *American Scenery*. Bartlett traveled widely through the United States and Canada in the 1830s, sketching towns, rivers, and coastlines for engravers working in London, where the plates were assembled into a lavishly illustrated book. Steel plates held fine detail and could yield many clean impressions, which suited the travel views that were popular with readers of the period. Prints like this one presented a growing port city as both commercially busy and picturesque.

Medium1 print : steel engraving.
Notes1839
SubjectsSteel engraving by S. Fisher after Wm. Henry Bartlett. Illus. in Nathaniel P. Willis, American Scenery. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI--Works; Artists, Publ. Index; Maryland--B-; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,055 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130625

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