[Charlestown Promontory, the ruins of the town after the Battle of Bunker Hill and General Howe's encampment]

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[Charlestown Promontory, the ruins of the town after the Battle of Bunker Hill and General Howe's encampment]
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Title:
[Charlestown Promontory, the ruins of the town after the Battle of Bunker Hill and General Howe's encampment]
Description:
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:
[Richard Williams].
Date:
1775
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Manuscripts
Genre:
Views
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
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:
Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 view : ink and watercolor ; 17 x 47 cm
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Scale:
Not drawn to scale
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
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):
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:
06_01_011914