Object Number 1973.0535

Object Name

Print (Color lithograph)

Title

THE NEW/ MASONIC TEMPLE,/ BOSTON.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Anonymous

Creator (Role)

John Henry Bufford (Lithographer and printer)
07/27/1810-10/08/1870
References: Last, The Color Explosion, pp. 47-9; Peters, America on Stone, pp. 118-27; Sally Pierce, Boston Lithography, 1825-1880 (Boston: The Boston Athenæum, 1991). Listed in New York City directories: 1835-363 152 Broadway 1836-37 114 Nassau Street 1837-38 134 Nassau Street 1838-40 136 Nassau Street, corner of Beekman Street Listed in Boston directories: 1841-42 204 Washington Street, with B. W. Thayer and J. E. Moody 1843-44 204 Washington Street, with B. W. Thayer 1845-51 204 Washington Street, with B. W. Thayer in 1851 and A. G. Dawes in 1845 1851-55 265 Washington Street 1855 260 Washington Street 1856-64 313 Washington Street 1867 34 Chauncy Street (as Bufford Brothers?) *sons continued business after 1870 1871 490 Washington Street *address through 1873 n.d. 141 Franklin Street, and 93 Washington Street

Merrill G. Wheelock (Designer)
1822-1866
References: Marcus Warren Waite, The Wheelock Family of Calais, Vermont (North Montpelier, VT: Driftwind Press, 1940).

William D. Stratton (Publisher)

Place of Origin

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Date

1865

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Signature; Bottom left within image; F. CROW (in reverse)
2. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; J.H. BUFFORDS' LITH.
3. Inscription; Center beneath image; ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1865, BY W. D. STRATTON, IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT, OF THE DISTRICT OF MASS.
4. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; M. G. WHEELOCK, DES.\R
5. Inscription; Bottom left; ISSUED FROM BUFFORDS' PRINT PUBLISHING HOUSE, 313 WASHINGTON ST. BOSTON, MASS.
6. Inscription; Bottom right; Published by William D. Stratton.

Subjects

Armorial device; Building view; City view

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Lithography

Dimensions (inches)

21.1 (H) , 27 (W) , 17.4 (Image H) , 24.7 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

53.5 (H) , 68.5 (W) , 17.4 (Image H) , 24.7 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at left. W at bottom.

State

Reproduction

Watermark

none

Coloring

Colored stones

Edition Notes

Possible reproduction. Signature and use of colored stones without some hand coloring seems questionable.

Object Description

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