View of the City of Boston from Dorchester Heights

by Robert Havell

$9,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A majestic view of Boston Deák by Havell: landscape painter and engraver of Audubon's masterpiece. Robert Havell gives us a majestic view of Boston composed of highly ordered elements: the open-spaced rusticity of the foreground, which serves as a staging area for viewing the city, is linked to the densely developed metropolis in the background by a curving watercourse ... The city itself is presented most appealingly in the configuration of a terraced pyramid

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