A front view of the lines taken from the advanced post near Browns house : A view of the harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill ; A view of the country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced works on Boston Neck
Item Information
- Title:
- A front view of the lines taken from the advanced post near Browns house : A view of the harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill ; A view of the country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced works on Boston Neck
- Title (alt.):
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View of the harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill
View of the country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced works on Boston neck
- Creator:
- Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824
- Date:
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[1775?]
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Views
- Location:
- George Washington's Mount Vernon
- Collection (local):
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Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
- Subjects:
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Boston Harbor (Mass.)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
- Places:
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MassachusettsBoston Harbor
MassachusettsSuffolk (county)BostonDorchester
- Extent:
- 3 views on 1 sheet ; each 12 x 21 cm., on sheet 85 x 63 cm.
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
- Publisher:
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London :
J.F.W. Des Barres
- Scale:
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Not drawn to scale
- Language:
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English
- Catalog Record:
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MVLA record
- Notes:
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Three views of Boston by J.F.W. Des Barres created prior to, or just after the beginning of the Revolutionary war; some showing military emplacements by British officers; from Des Barres's Atlantic Neptune.
- Identifier:
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06_01_008503