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[Boston, Mass., Gov. John Hancock mansion with carriage drawn by six horses in foreground] – Vintage Wall Art

[Boston, Mass., Gov. John Hancock mansion with carriage drawn by six horses in foreground], c1893. — historic photograph
[Boston, Mass., Gov. John Hancock mansion with carriage drawn by six horses in foreground], c1893.. Historic photograph 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 historic photograph captures [Boston, Mass., Gov. John Hancock mansion with carriage drawn by six horses in foreground] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The particular thing about this picture is that it reproduces a drawing rather than a scene from life: the Hancock mansion on Beacon Street, with a six-horse carriage in the foreground, is shown as an artwork, and the record suggests W.H. Halliday photographed that drawing around 1893. John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first elected governor of Massachusetts, built the stone house on Beacon Hill in the 1790s, and it became a landmark of the early republic. Late nineteenth-century Bostonians revived interest in such structures, and images like this one, which pair a grand house with a formal coach, record how the city remembered its revolutionary-era elite.

Created / publishedc1893.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.Art reproductions 1890-1900.
NotesPhoto by(?) W.H. Halliday of a drawing(?). No. 10556.
SubjectsHancock, John,--1737-1793--Homes & haunts--Massachusetts--Boston. Mansions--Massachusetts--Boston--1780-1800. Carriages & coaches--1780-1800.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 978 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167209

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