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

(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 Prospects
ProvenanceMay 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)