COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
35382
Record number:
35382-4
JCB call number:
DC M414 1790 (July-December)
Image title:
S.E. Prospect, from an Eminence near the Common, Boston.
Creator 1:
Samuel Hill
Creator 1 dates:
d. 1804
Creator 1 role:
Del. & Engrav'd, by
Place image published:
[Boston]
Image publisher:
[Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews]
Image date:
[1790]
Image function:
plate XI; frontispice for November, following p.640
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
11 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
17 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
20.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
View of the town of Boston from a hill. A man sits in the foreground with a dog and cattle. Also includes dwellings, ships, and churches.
Source Title:
The Massachusetts magazine or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. No. XI. For November, 1790. Vol. II.
Source place of publication:
Printed at Boston
Source publisher:
By Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews at Faust's Statue, No. 45, Newbury Street
Source date:
1790
notes:
Text describes the view as being taken from near Governor John Hancock's house. In the distance are the heights of Dorchester. Hancock's land was used to build the State House in Boston in 1797. Image placed horizontally on page. Each monthly issue has a frontispiece, and there is a separate frontispiece for each bound year.
Time Period:
1751-1800
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:
Boston (Mass.)--Description and travel
S.E. Prospect, from an Eminence near the Common, Boston.
