VIEW OF THE ANCIENT BUILDINGS BELONGING TO HARVARD-COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, NEW ENGLAND.
View of the ancient Buildings belonging to Harvard-College, Cambridge, New England.
Engraving, 1788.
Image 3 1/4 x 5 3/4" (8.3 x 14.6 cm).
Good condition save for soft fox mark in the lower left margin. Drum mounted. LOCATION: New York City
Inventory Number: 95813
Price: $2,500.00 Publisher : Published by the Columbian Magazine, Philadelphia. A rare 18th century American produced view of Harvard.
Shown left to right is Harvard Hall, Stoughton Hall and Massachusetts Hall.
This view appeared in the December. 1788 issue of the Columbian Magazine and was based on the Burgis-Price view of 1743. Although unsigned, it is likely the work of James Trenchard, a co-owner of the Magazine and the engraver of nearly all the plates that appeared in it. 18th-19th Century Subjects , Colleges and Universities , Harvard