1835
Folder 2
GUSN-370292
With accompanying text. From "The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge," published by the Boston Bewick Co., page 42. Date: 1835. Engraving. Reverse: Illustrated depictions of The Summer Duck and The Cuckoo, among other subjects.
exterior views
prints (visual works)
engravings (prints)
prisons (buildings)
prints (visual works)
1 print; 5 5/8 x 3 7/8 inches
The materials in this collection were collected by Anne Booth in the 1970s to early 1980s, mostly purchased at Goodspeed's Book Shop and Haley & Steele.
GC012
Anne Booth graphic collection
2018
GC012.01.04
Gift
Charlestown (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston Bewick Company (Publisher)
prints (visual works)
Boston Bewick Company
Item description from original donor.
Item
Folder 2
The Boston Bewick Company was a group of engravers and printers active in Boston between 1834 and roughly 1837. The company was established "for the purpose of employing, improving, and extending the art of engraving, polytyping, embossing, and printing."
Boston Bewick Company. (1957). In G. C. Groce & D. H. Wallce (eds.), The New-York Historical Societys Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860 (p. 66). Yale University Press.
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