South View of the Several Halls of Harvard College. Taken from the Balcony of the President’s House

by Alvin Fisher, after, Annin, engravers Smith

$3,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Boston: Published by Cummings, Hilliard & Co., May 1st 1823. Fisher Pinxt. Annin & Smith Sc. Copper-plate engraving, 9 7/8” x 14 15/16”, plus margins. A scarce and very fine engraved view of Harvard, based on a painting by early American view and landscape painter Alvin Fisher.This evocative 1820s engraving depicts the campus from the south, showing the six halls that constituted the campus at the time:

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