Antique Print of the Trinity Church in the city of Boston, 1887

Name: Antique Print of the Trinity Church in the city of Boston, 1887
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: JAK-732
Price: 170 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1887
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 23.5 × 30 cm (9.3 × 11.8 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Protection sheet attached. Blank verso, please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Massachusetts
Reference: JAK-732

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Trinity Church in Boston, an original print from Voyages and Travels Illustrated, published by E. W. Walker & Co. and dated 1887. The image is a photographic print in sepia tone, laid on a larger cream sheet, with the title "Trinity Church" in script and "Boston, Mass." beneath it.

The view is taken from the street corner and shows the church in its full Romanesque mass: the great central tower with its steep pyramidal roof and corner turrets rising behind a rounded apse and a gabled transept, the walls built of rough-faced stone with round-arched windows and banded detail. To the right stands a lower building with a peaked roof and a porch, and in the distance a second tower and further streets can be made out. The foreground is an unpaved street with timber stacked at the left, which gives the scene the look of a building still in a changing neighborhood.

Trinity Church, on Copley Square, was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, and the building is one of the landmarks of American architecture of the 1870s.

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