Vuë de Boston. Prospect des plazes vor dem rath house zu Boston Vuë de la rue et de la maison de ville a Boston / gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann. – 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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A window into the past: Vuë de Boston. Prospect des plazes vor dem rath house zu Boston Vuë de la rue et de la maison de ville a Boston / gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann., preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Vuë de Boston. Prospect des plazes vor dem rath house zu Boston Vuë de la rue et de la maison de ville a Boston / gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann.
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This etching shows the open square in front of the Town House, the building that had served as the seat of government in Boston, with its streets and figures filling the foreground. Francois Xavier Habermann engraved the plate for an Augsburg publisher, and the bracketed date of about 1778 places it during the Revolutionary War, when European readers followed the conflict through prints like this one. Because the view was made far from Boston, it likely relied on secondhand sketches or earlier engravings, so the hand coloring and details show how the city was imagined abroad as much as how it looked.
| Medium | 1 print : etching, hand-colored. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [Augsburg : s.n., 1778?] |
| Subjects | Capitols--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. Streets--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. City & town life--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. Boston (Mass.)--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,175 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173757 |
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