COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
80-182
Record number:
80-182-4
JCB call number:
DC M414 1791 (Jan.-June)
Image title:
View of the Town of Boston from Breeds Hill in Charlestown
Creator 1:
Samuel Hill
Creator 1 dates:
d. 1804
Creator 1 role:
Del. & Engraved by
Place image published:
[Boston]
Image publisher:
[I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews]
Image date:
[1791]
Image function:
plate VI; following p. [330]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
9.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
11.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
View of Boston from Breed's Hill in Charlestown. Includes wharves, ships, dwellings, fence, bridge, and domestic animal.
Source Title:
The Massachusetts magazine, or Monthly museum ... Vol. III. For 1791
Source place of publication:
Printed at Boston
Source publisher:
By I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews ...
Source date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
notes:
The text describes the image of Boston newly arisen from the ashes of war with Castle William at far left and the Beacon Hill column at far right. The Charles River Bridge, the first to link Boston and Charlestown and the longest bridge in the country at that time, can be seen at right. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1980.
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
View of the Town of Boston from Breeds Hill in Charlestown
