Description:
Hand-colored lithograph titled "BOSTON COMMON" and marked "Drawn by James Kidder. Published by Abel Bowen. Senefelder Litho Co." James Kidder (1793-1837) began his career as an engraver, and by 1823 was working for Abel Bowen, a noted wood engraver; "Boston Common" was probably his first lithograph. In 1813, Kidder had executed as small aquatint of the Common for "Polyanthus," an illustrated magazine published in Boston. Kidder produced a number of works for the Senefelder Lithographic Co. which worked at 123 Washington St. from 1828-1831. The scene show Charles Bulfinch's State House on the top of Beacon Hill with the Hancock House on the left and other buildings on Beacon and Park streets, intersecting paths, people walking and children playing, and scattered trees. As the cows on the left illustrate, the Common was still being used as pasture, but the city offically banned all cows from the park in 1830.
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