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Handcolored print of Bridge, Mermaid Tavern & Bankside Approach to Globe Theatre, Shakespeare Village in the Boston Fens, 1916

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1916

Location Note

Vertical file 3: dr. 14

GUSN

GUSN-252587

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Description

An architectural sketch of the riverside approach to the Globe Theatre in the Shakespeare Village, with a building, bridge and the Charles River. This print was framed and exhibited in the 1916 "Joint Exhibition of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sculpture, and the Allied Arts." Each print is colored with either watercolor or an ink wash. The framed prints are also numbered--this is number 3.

Details

Descriptive Terms

villages
festivals
anniversaries
rivers
prints (visual works)

Physical Description

1 print with watercolor or ink

Collection Code

AR003

Collection Name

Frank Chouteau Brown professional architectural collection

Date of Acquisition

1980

Reference Code

AR003.002.09.004a

Acquisition Type

Library & Archives Purchase

Image Dimensions

14.5 x 24.25 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Charles (Massachusetts) [river]

Record Details

Originator

Brown, Frank Chouteau, 1876-1947 (Delineator)

Material Type

prints (visual works)

Subjects

Shakespeare

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Vertical file 3: dr. 14

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