[Charlestown Promontory, the ruins of the town after the Battle of Bunker Hill and General Howe's encampment]
Item Information
- Title:
- [Charlestown Promontory, the ruins of the town after the Battle of Bunker Hill and General Howe's encampment]
- Description:
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Ink and watercolor manuscript panoramic view depicting the area around Boston during the siege after the Battle of Bunker Hill, as seen from Beacon Hill.
- Artist:
- Williams, Richard, active 1750-1776
- Name on Item:
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[Richard Williams].
- Date:
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1775
- Format:
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Drawings/Illustrations
Manuscripts
- 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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Sieges--Massachusetts--Boston--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Boston (Mass.)--History--Siege, 1775-1776--Aerial views--Early works to 1800
Boston (Mass.)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Boston (Mass.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Aerial views--Early works to 1800
- Places:
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Suffolk (county)Boston
- Extent:
- 1 view : ink and watercolor ; 17 x 47 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).
- 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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Part of a set of 5 ink and watercolor manuscript views depicting the area around Boston during the siege after the Battle of Bunker Hill, as seen from Beacon Hill.
- Notes (exhibitions):
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Exhibited: "We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2015.
Exhibited: "We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2015.
- Identifier:
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06_01_011914