A design to represent the beginning and completion of an American settlement or farm Dessein qui represente la maniere d'etablir et de parachever une habitation ou ferme Americaine / painted by Paul Sandby, from a design made by his excellency Governor Pownal ; engraved by James Peake. – Historic 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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This rare historic print captures A design to represent the beginning and completion of an American settlement or farm Dessein qui represente la maniere d'etablir et de parachever une habitation ou ferme Americaine / painted by Paul Sandby, from a design made by his excellency Governor Pownal ; engraved by James Peake. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A design to represent the beginning and completion of an American settlement or farm Dessein qui represente la maniere d'etablir et de parachever une habitation ou ferme Americaine / painted by Paul Sandby, from a design made by his excellency Governor Pownal ; engraved by James Peake.
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Rather than a single view, this etching sets two stages of frontier life side by side, showing how a settlement begins and how a farm looks once it is finished. It was painted by Paul Sandby after a design by Governor Pownal, a former royal governor of Massachusetts, and engraved by James Peake for the London map seller Thomas Jefferys, who issued it on May 20, 1761. A later impression appeared in the atlas *Scenographia Americana* (1768), which gathered views of North American places for British readers curious about the colonies. Its pairing of clearing and finished farm offers a clear picture of frontier expectations.
| Created / published | London : Thos. Jefferys, the corner of St. Martin's Lane, 1761 May 20. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Genre | Landscapes (Representations) 1760-1770.Etchings 1760-1770. |
| Notes | Title from item. Another impression in: Scenographia Americana. London : J. Bowles, 1768. Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, Thos. Jefferys the corner of St. Martins Lane in the Strand, Carington Bowles at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, and Henry Parker at No. 82 in Cornhill. 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. 578 (1768 printing). 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. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003. |
| Subjects | Farms--1760-1770. Frontier & pioneer life--1760-1770. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,497 × 1,216 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218461 |
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