Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: A North View of Castle William in the Harbour of Boston.

Accession number: 
5437
Record number: 
5437-4
JCB call number: 
DC M414 1789-96
Image title: 
A North View of Castle William in the Harbour of Boston.
Place image published: 
[Boston]
Image publisher: 
[Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews]
Image date: 
[1789]
Image function: 
Plate V; following p. [258]
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
10 cm.
Image dimension width: 
17.2 cm.
Page dimension height: 
22 cm.
Page dimension width: 
13.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
Fort William, a fort on Castle Island in Boston harbor, includes dwellings and fortifications.
Source Title: 
The Massachusetts magazine or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment ... Vol. I. For 1789
Source place of publication: 
Printed at Boston
Source publisher: 
By Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews ...
Source date: 
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
notes: 
Fort William, said to be the site of the oldest continually used military fortification in British North America, was constructed on Castle Island in 1634. It was destroyed by the British when they evacuated Boston in 1776. In 1797 the fort was rebuilt and named Fort Independence. From 1785 until 1805 it served as a prison for prisoners sentenced to hard labor. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
References: 
Cresswell, D. H. American Revolution in Drawings and Prints, 491; http://www.geocities.com/naforts/ma.html#oldboston (Apr. 2004)
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: 
Boston Harbor ( Mass.)--Description and travel
Subject headings: 
Boston (Mass.)--Description and travel