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ca. 1851
Prints: Roxbury, Mass.
GUSN-198840
A detailed engraving that shows the summer home of the publisher and proprietor of the Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Frederick Gleason. The house sits on a hill and the estate consists of about three acres of land. There are fountain ornaments in the front lawn and an extensive aviary attached to the house which contains hundreds of every type of fowl and bird that thrives in our climate. Horses and carriages are driving in front of the house. Includes views of "Entrance to the Grapery of the Belvidere Estate," "Fountain and Summer House at Belvidere Hall" and "Piazza of Belvidere Hall."
summer houses (seasonal dwellings)
exterior views
arbors
estates (property)
carriages (vehicles)
fountains
gardens
piazzas (squares)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection number PR350
1 engraving
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1922-02-20
GC002.01.MA.6800.005
Gift
15 x 11 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of L.W. Jenkins, 1922
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Mallory, Richard P. (Delineator)
Worcester and Pierce (Engraver)
Gleason's Pictorial (Publisher)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Gleason, Frederick, 1816-1896
Good, with some yellow stains and a tear in the middle where the fold is and another on the lower left-hand side.
Item
Prints: Roxbury, Mass.
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