Portland, Me

by J. W. Hill, after, Charles Parsons, lithog

$5,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New York: Smith Brothers & Co.; Printed by Endicott & Co., 1855. Tinted lithograph, 22.75” x 40”, plus margins. John Hill’s 1855 view of Portland, Maine from Cape Elizabeth—perhaps the best known topographic view of the port city—showing in wonderful detail the flourishing conditions there before the Civil War and the Great Fire of 1866.The captivating quality of this view is achieved through

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