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VIew of the Square in Front of the City Hall, Boston
VIew of the Square in Front of the City Hall, Boston

VIew of the Square in Front of the City Hall, Boston

Franz Xaver Habermann (German, 1721–1796)
about 1778
Medium/TechniqueEtching and engraving with hand coloring
DimensionsSheet: 33.8 × 42.8 cm (13 5/16 × 16 7/8 in.)
Credit LineThe Richard Balzer Collection—Gift of Patricia Bellinger Balzer
Accession number2019.886
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn plate, at center above image, reversed: VUE DE BOSTON In plate, at left above image: Collection des ProspectsProvenanceMay 22, 2015, sold at Bubb Kuyper Veilingen, Haarlem, NL, auction 62, lot 5419, to an unidentified Dutch book and camera dealer; 2015, sold by that dealer to Richard Balzer (b. 1944 - d. 2017), Brookline, MA; by inheritance to Patricia Bellinger; 2019, gift of Patricia Bellinger to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 24, 2019)