Boston, Charlestown & Bunker Hill as seen from the fort at Roxbury, 1828 – Vintage 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Boston, Charlestown & Bunker Hill as seen from the fort at Roxbury, 1828, a historic drawing rich in period 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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This pencil drawing is a bird's-eye survey taken from the fort at Roxbury, looking across the water toward Charlestown and Bunker Hill. The Massachusetts State House, Charles Bulfinch's statehouse of 1798 on Beacon Hill, is among the subjects the artist chose to show above the city's rooftops. Roxbury's fortifications date to the siege of Boston in 1775, when American troops built works on the high ground to watch the British across the harbor. The view was drawn in 1828, while the Bunker Hill monument was still under construction, so it records the Charlestown side of the battlefield before the granite obelisk rose there.
| 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 | 4,725 × 3,801 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220221 |
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