Boston from Willis Creek / Wm. Pierre delin. – Vintage Wall Art
![Boston from Willis Creek / 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/fe/fe77c01555f7-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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Boston from Willis Creek / Wm. Pierre delin. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Boston from Willis Creek / Wm. Pierre delin.
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Willis Creek, a tidal inlet in the Boston area, is the focus of this etching, which views the harbor and its shoreline from the water. It was made by William Pierre and published in London on September 16, 1775, by Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, a surveyor who worked for the Royal Navy. Its date falls months after the fighting at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, when Boston was under siege, and the print was later reproduced in DesBarres's *Atlantic Neptune* (1777-1781), a navigational atlas meant for British naval officers.
| 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. 500. |
| Subjects | Rivers--Massachusetts--1770-1780. Boston (Mass.)--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 951 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-123159 |
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