An east view of the meeting house in Hollis Street, Boston, now erecting on the ruins of one lately destroyed by fire / C. Bulfinch delin. ; Vallance sc. – Historic Photograph Print
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(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: An east view of the meeting house in Hollis Street, Boston, now erecting on the ruins of one lately destroyed by fire / C. Bulfinch delin. ; Vallance sc., preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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An east view of the meeting house in Hollis Street, Boston, now erecting on the ruins of one lately destroyed by fire / C. Bulfinch delin. ; Vallance sc.
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The engraving shows the east elevation of the Hollis Street meeting house in Boston while the new building was going up on the site of an earlier church that fire had recently destroyed. Charles Bulfinch, who later designed the Massachusetts State House, drew the view, and an engraver named Vallance transferred it to copper. It appeared in the April 1788 issue of *The Columbian Magazine* of Philadelphia, one of the monthly miscellanies that carried architectural views and news of American cities in the years after the Revolution. The piece is a useful record of Boston's postwar rebuilding and of Bulfinch's early work as a designer.
| Created / published | [1788] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1780-1790.Etchings 1780-1790. |
| Notes | Title from item. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard, 1788 April, opp. p. 175. Stauffer, 3341 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. 517. |
| Subjects | Hollis Street Church (Boston, Mass.)--1780-1790. Churches--Massachusetts--Boston--1780-1790. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,342 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-123128 |
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