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Liberty Tree

Collection Type

  • art

Date

1840

Location Note

Prints: Boston, Ma.: Washington St.

GUSN

GUSN-198382

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Description

This etching is an impressionistic view of the tree between two houses at the corner of the road. The location is now Washington Street at the corner of Essex. A man on horseback talks to two men in the road.

Details

Descriptive Terms

trees
houses
scenes (depictions)
streetscapes
etchings (prints)
prints (visual works)

Additional Identification Number

Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR252

Physical Description

1 etching

Collection Code

GC002

Collection Name

Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

Date of Acquisition

1939-02-01

Reference Code

GC002.01.MA.3550.018

Acquisition Type

Gift

Image Dimensions

6 x 9.5 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Wm. S. Appleton, 1939

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

etchings (prints)
prints (visual works)

Subjects

Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)
Essex Street (Boston, Mass.)
Liberty Tree

Restrictions

poor

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Prints: Boston, Ma.: Washington St.

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