VIEW OF THE NEW JAIL FOR SUFFOLK COUNTY, IN THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, ERECTING BY THE CITY OF BOSTON UPON CHARLES & NORTH GROVE STS.
Prints and Maps
John Henry Bufford (Lithographer)
Charles Howland Hammatt Billings (Draftsman)
G. J. F. Bryant (Architect)
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
1848
Ink; Paper (wove)
Lithography
1973.0582
Object Number1973.0582 |
Print (Color lithograph)
VIEW OF THE NEW JAIL FOR SUFFOLK COUNTY, IN THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, ERECTING BY THE CITY OF BOSTON UPON CHARLES & NORTH GROVE STS.
Prints and Maps
Library purchase
John Henry Bufford (Lithographer)
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
Charles Howland Hammatt Billings (Draftsman)
1818-1874
G. J. F. Bryant (Architect)
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
1848
1. Inscription; Lower center, left; H. Billings del.
2. Inscription; Lower center, right; J.H. Bufford's Lith Boston.
3. Inscription; Lower right; G.J.F. BRYANT, ARCHITECT.
Building view; Landscape
Ink; Paper (wove)
Lithography
21.9 (H) , 28.1 (W) , 16.4 (Image H) , 24.5 (Image W)
55.6 (H) , 71.4 (W) , 16.4 (Image H) , 24.5 (Image W)
1848
Boston, Massachusetts
None
Colored stones
Text available soon.