A view of Boston from Dorchester Neck / Wm. Pierre delin. – Vintage Wall Art
![A view of Boston from Dorchester Neck / Wm. Pierre delin., [London] : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J.F.W. DesBarres, Esq, 1775 Septr. 16. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f6/f6c0bc7b7d34-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of A view of Boston from Dorchester Neck / Wm. Pierre delin.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A view of Boston from Dorchester Neck / Wm. Pierre delin.
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Drawn from the Dorchester Neck peninsula south of town, this etching shows Boston across the water as it looked in the first months of the war. Its date line, September 16, 1775, places it just after the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill, when British troops were penned into the town by American forces on the surrounding land. The print was issued in London under Joseph F. W. DesBarres, a British surveyor whose charts and views were gathered in *The Atlantic Neptune*, a multivolume atlas for the Royal Navy. Its value lies in that purpose: the views were made to inform officers about coastlines and harbors, so they record the shoreline and town with a surveyor's precision.
| Created / published | [London] : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by J.F.W. DesBarres, Esq, 1775 Septr. 16. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Genre | Marine prints 1770-1780.Etchings 1770-1780. |
| Notes | Title from item. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777-1781. This record contains unverified, old data from Cresswell, 1975. 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. 503. |
| Subjects | Boston (Mass.)--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 982 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117228 |
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