Bird’s-eye view of Boston by Thomas Sulman—Illustrated London News 1872 map
£200
SKU: P-8-006994
'Bird’s-Eye View of Boston, United States'
Thomas Sulman’s expansive bird’s-eye view presents Boston from an elevated position above the harbour, with the dense commercial city, Charlestown, East Boston, Cambridge and the Charles and Mystic rivers spreading into the distance. Bridges, railways, wharves, shipping and major landmarks—including Bunker Hill and Harvard—are carefully labelled. Issued as an Extra Supplement to The Illustrated London News on 23 November 1872, the print appeared less than two weeks after the Great Boston Fire of 9–10 November. The image was evidently prepared before the disaster and therefore offers a detailed record of the pre-fire city at the moment reconstruction began. The finely cut wood engraving is characteristic of Sulman’s celebrated urban panoramas and survives here in unusually clean, broad-margined condition with its original centre fold.
Size 38 x 55 cm | 15.0 x 21.5 inches
Date Published: 23 November 1872
Type: Double page folding wood engraved bird’s-eye city view
Author: Sulman, Thomas
Publication: Illustrated London News
Condition: Good |
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