Boston, Charlestown & Bunker Hill as seen from the fort at Roxbury, 1828 – Antique Print
(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 drawing captures Boston, Charlestown & Bunker Hill as seen from the fort at Roxbury, 1828 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Boston, Charlestown & Bunker Hill as seen from the fort at Roxbury, 1828
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Drawn in pencil in 1828, this bird's-eye view looks north from the fort at Roxbury across Boston toward Charlestown and Bunker Hill. The State House, designed by Charles Bulfinch and finished in 1798, appears among the city's rooftops and church spires. The view also captures Charlestown in the years when the Bunker Hill Monument was being planned, a memorial to the 1775 battle that the cornerstone laying of 1825 had just set in motion. Panoramic drawings like this one were popular in the 1820s, and they show how the young city's skyline and its surrounding hills related to one another.
| Created / published | 1828 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Genre | Bird's-eye views American 1820-1830.Cityscape drawings 1820-1830.Pencil works American 1820-1830.Drawings American 1820-1830. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Marion S. Carson collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana / Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1999, p. 82. |
| Subjects | Massachusetts State House (Boston, Mass.)--1820-1830. Boston (Mass.)--1820-1830. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,772 × 2,627 px · prints to 13 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220221 |
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