Vue de Boston vers le cale du port / gravé par François Xav. Habermann. – 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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Vue de Boston vers le cale du port / gravé par François Xav. Habermann. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Vue de Boston vers le cale du port / gravé par François Xav. Habermann.
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Ships crowd the waterfront in this French-titled etching, which shows Boston from its harbor side rather than from the town's usual vantage. The engraver, François Xavier Habermann, worked in Germany, so the plate was likely built from a drawing or secondhand source rather than a sketch made on the spot. Catalogers date it to the 1770s, when the harbor was central to the city's trade and, soon after, to its political unrest. The hand coloring added to the engraved lines was a common finishing touch on such prints and gives the sky and sails their period tones.
| Medium | 1 print : etching, hand-colored. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [177-] |
| Subjects | Ships--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. Harbors--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. Waterfronts--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,126 × 4,115 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225009 |
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