COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
5437
Record number:
5437-5
JCB call number:
DC M414 1789- 9b
Image title:
View of the seat of his Excellency John Hancock, Esqr. Boston
Creator 1:
Samuel Hill
Creator 1 dates:
d. 1804
Creator 1 role:
del. et Sculpt.
Place image published:
[Boston]
Image publisher:
[Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews]
Image date:
[1789]
Image function:
Plate VII; following p. [394]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
9.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
16 cm.
Page dimension height:
22.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
13.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
View of a house or dwelling, stables, outbuildings, with domestic animals.
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:
The land that was owned by Hancock, Massachusett's first elected governor, is the site of the State House in Boston, built in 1797. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Cresswell, D. H. American Revolution in Drawings and Prints, 518
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 (Mass.)--Description and travel
View of the seat of his Excellency John Hancock, Esqr. Boston
