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A view of the mansion of the late Lord Timothy Dexter in High Street, Newburyport, 1810 / J.H. Bufford's lith. – Vintage Wall Art

A view of the mansion of the late Lord Timothy Dexter in High Street, Newburyport, 1810 / J.H. Bufford's lith., [Boston, 184-?] — antique lithograph
A view of the mansion of the late Lord Timothy Dexter in High Street, Newburyport, 1810 / J.H. Bufford's lith., [Boston, 184-?]. Antique lithograph from the Boston 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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This rare antique lithograph captures A view of the mansion of the late Lord Timothy Dexter in High Street, Newburyport, 1810 / J.H. Bufford's lith. 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 view of the mansion of the late Lord Timothy Dexter in High Street, Newburyport, 1810 / J.H. Bufford's lith.

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Timothy Dexter's High Street mansion in Newburyport, Massachusetts, is the subject here, shown as it appeared around 1810, a few years before Dexter's death in 1806 would have been widely remembered. Dexter, a self-made merchant who had become wealthy through a run of unlikely speculations, filled his grounds with eccentric statuary and inscriptions, and the print's crowd of onlookers reflects how much visitors came to gawk at the place. Although the lithograph was made by J.H. Bufford in Boston in the 1840s, it looks back to the earlier scene, which helps explain its interest as a record of a local curiosity.

Created / published[Boston, 184-?]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand colored.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1840-1850.
NotesPublished in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 145.
SubjectsDexter, Timothy,--1747-1806--Homes & haunts--Massachusetts--Newburyport. Architectural follies--Massachusetts--Newburyport--1810. Sightseers--Massachusetts--Newburyport--1810.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,455 × 1,164 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216665

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