View of Faneuil-Hall in Boston, Massachusetts / W. Pierpont del. ; S. Hill sculp. – Vintage Wall Art
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View of Faneuil-Hall in Boston, Massachusetts / W. Pierpont del. ; S. Hill sculp.
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Faneuil Hall, the brick market building on Dock Square in Boston, is the subject here, shown as an engraved frontispiece for the March 1789 issue of The Massachusetts Magazine, one of the more ambitious monthly periodicals of the young republic. The hall had been given to the town by merchant Peter Faneuil in 1742 and was long known as the "Cradle of Liberty" for the colonial town meetings held within it. Printed in the years just after the Revolution, the view captures a civic landmark that the new nation's readers would have recognized at once. Its engraving by S. Hill after a drawing by W. Pierpont reflects the period's growing taste for images of American places.
| Created / published | 1789 March. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Genre | Frontispieces 1780-1790.Periodical illustrations 1780-1790.Etchings 1780-1790. |
| Notes | Title from item. Engraved for Massachusetts Mag. March 1789. Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, vol. I, no. III, 1789 (March), frontispiece. Stauffer, 1402 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. 514. |
| Subjects | Faneuil Hall (Boston, Mass.)--1780-1790. Markets--Massachusetts--Boston.--1780-1790. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,698 × 3,142 px · prints to 16 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122728 |
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