COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
5437
Record number:
5437-1
JCB call number:
DC M414 1789-96
Image title:
A S.W. View of the Baptist meeting House, Providence, R.I.
Creator 1:
S. Hill
Creator 1 role:
sculp.
Place image published:
[Boston]
Image publisher:
[Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews]
Image date:
[1789]
Image function:
Plate VIII; following p. [458]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
9.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
22.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
13.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
The First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island. Includes dwellings.
Source Title:
The Massachusetts magazine : or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment
Source place of publication:
Printed at Boston
Source publisher:
By Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews ...
Source date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
notes:
The oldest Baptist church in America, the First Baptist Church was founded in 1638 by Roger Williams. This engraving shows the present building, the third meeting house to be built. At the time of its construction in 1775, it was the largest building project in New England. Many of the construction crew were Boston carpenters and shipwrights out of work because the British had closed Boston's port.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1909.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Rhode Island--Description and travel
A S.W. View of the Baptist meeting House, Providence, R.I.
