Antique View of Boston, Hand Colored Etching, Fumagalli, c.1827

$190.00

Tavole XXXIX. Veduta di Boston. – Plate 39. View of Boston, Paolo Fumagalli. blind stamp, lower right. C.1827

Line and aquatint etching with hand coloring. A view of Boston from Cambridge, with the flag flying from Castle William, known as Fort Independence.  Image size 6 1/4” x 9”, matted and framed to 12 1/2” x 15”. 


From Giulio Ferrario’s Il Costume Antico e Moderno…l’America…, published in Milan between 1815 and 1826 in weekly installments.  Giulio Ferrario was founder of the ‘Societa Tipografica de Classici Italiani’ and served as the director of the Braidense National Library in Milan, Italy.  Besides Fumagalli, such notable artists as Gallina, Bonatti, Biasioli, Rossi, Bigatti, Bramati, Gallo, Monticelli and others contributed to the work.  


Tavole XXXIX. Veduta di Boston. – Plate 39. View of Boston, Paolo Fumagalli. blind stamp, lower right. C.1827

Line and aquatint etching with hand coloring. A view of Boston from Cambridge, with the flag flying from Castle William, known as Fort Independence.  Image size 6 1/4” x 9”, matted and framed to 12 1/2” x 15”. 


From Giulio Ferrario’s Il Costume Antico e Moderno…l’America…, published in Milan between 1815 and 1826 in weekly installments.  Giulio Ferrario was founder of the ‘Societa Tipografica de Classici Italiani’ and served as the director of the Braidense National Library in Milan, Italy.  Besides Fumagalli, such notable artists as Gallina, Bonatti, Biasioli, Rossi, Bigatti, Bramati, Gallo, Monticelli and others contributed to the work.