Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2567BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 05, 2011 10:00AM
Description:
Sharp & Michelin, printers (American, 19th Century)
View of the First Parish Meeting House, Hingham, Mass. Erected in the year 1681. Identified in inscriptions in the matrix. Lithograph on paper, sight size 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 in., in a period molded giltwood frame. Condition: Tears into image l.r., creases, foxing, not examined out of frame.
Provenance: James Russell Lowell, Boston.
Estimate $300-500
Does not appear to be laid down (creases are raised ). Looks like connected angled tears into image c.r. and l.r.,