1914
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Louisburg Square
GUSN-198425
This is a card with a woodcut inside: "With Mr. Updike's New Year's Greetings to the Friends of The Merrymount Press, Boston, MDCCCCXV." The woodcut shows a house with the square in front and a sign that says "Montes et Colles Cantabunt" (the mountains and hills shall sing) from Isaiah 55:12. There is a small statue on the left.
Greek Revival
houses
squares (open spaces)
statues
woodcut (process)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR96
1 tinted brown wood-cut
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GC002.01.MA.2350.002
9.5 x 7.5 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Beacon Hill (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1883-1978 (Artist)
woodcut (process)
prints (visual works)
Louisburg Square (Boston, Mass.)
Excellent
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Louisburg Square
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