Framed print of an ink drawing depicting a field in foreground, trees in middleground, and about twelve to fourteen buildings in background. Clouds are crudely drawn. In upper left corner is a hanging scroll with words in script.
prints (visual works)
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Print
"A westerly perspective / VIEW / of part of the town of / Cambridge" (printed)
"By Samuel Griffin, class of 1784" (printed)
"View of Harvard College from / the northend by S. Griffin of Class of 1784 / This very crude drawing is of interest / as it shows the college from different / angle from the Revere and other / early views. / It is easy to make out Massachusetts / and Harvard. Beyond Harvard is / Hollis and beyond that is group of houses / near the present Gymm, & the law school / of which one can recognize the Holuds house / To the left of Mass. appears the square / towers of Christ Church . Then a large / house probably Wadsworth House and / another house I dont know then the / old First Parish Meetinghouse with / a steeple. Then a large house I do / not recognize. / It looks to me as if the sketch were / made from the sloping knoll on which / Peabody know stands beyond / the library / This reproduction by Goodspeed given / me Christmas 1927 by A.P.P. / Stephen W Phillips" (handwritten)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P386
Griffin, Samuel (Artist)
8 4/16 x 13 5/16 x 7/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.809
ca. 1927 (Original drawing ca. 1784)
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