Vuë de la Ruë grande vers l'Eglise du Sud des Presbiteriennes a Boston. = Prospect des grossen Plazes gegen der alten Sud Kirche der Presbiterianer zu Boston. / Gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann.

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Title: Vuë de la Ruë grande vers l'Eglise du Sud des Presbiteriennes a Boston. = Prospect des grossen Plazes gegen der alten Sud Kirche der Presbiterianer zu Boston. / Gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann.
Alternate Title: Prospect des grossen Plazes gegen der alten Sud Kirche der Presbiterianer zu Boston
Date: [approximately 1778]
Creator: Habermann, Franz Xaver, 1721-1796, artist.
Notes: View of a Boston, Massachusetts street scene depicting a Presbyterian church, pedestrians carrying goods and conversing, and a mule train hauling a cannon guarded by several soldiers.; Part of a series of imagined views of North American cities titled 'Collection des Prospects' by Franz Xaver Habermann (1721-1796) and Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt (1755-1812) that were issued in Augsburg, Germany around the time of the American Revolution.; This is a fictitious representation of Boston that likely borrowed features from several unidentified views of major European cities.; "Vuë de Boston." appears written in reverse along the upper margin.
Names and Subjects: Cannons--Massachusetts--Boston.; Pedestrians--Massachusetts--Boston.; Presbyterian churches--Massachusetts--Boston.; Soldiers--Massachusetts--Boston.; Streets--Massachusetts--Boston.; Prints shelf.; Boston (Mass.)--Pictorial works.
Genre: Engravings Hand-colored 1770-1780.; Etchings Hand-colored 1770-1780.; Intaglio prints 1770-1780.; Vues d'optique 1770-1780.
ID: 6039
Barcode: B9333253
Physical Description: 1 print : etching and engraving, hand-colored ; 37.5 x 47 cm
Repository: William L. Clements Library
Date Added/Updated: 2018-09-05 11:18:44

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Image Size: 12208 x 8992
File Size: 6 MB
Record: 6039
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Full citation: "Vuë de la Ruë grande vers l'Eglise du Sud des Presbiteriennes a Boston. = Prospect des grossen Plazes gegen der alten Sud Kirche der Presbiterianer zu Boston. / Gravé par Francois Xav. Habermann.". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-6039/wcl006112. In the digital collection William L. Clements Library Image Bank. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. July 14, 2025.