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Map of the Town of Dublin, New Hampshire including the part set off to the town of Harrisville.
Boston: C. J. Peters & Son Co., 1907. Chromolithograph, 24.75” x 33.5”, printed in brown and blue, with additional hand-coloring in red, mounted on linen and attached to original wooden rods. CONDITION: Very good, dampstaining and gray stains in lower-right corner, light wear around the cartouche, edgewear along upper-left and -right corners, chipping to black paint on the original rods. An early twentieth century wall map of Dublin, New Hampshire and the southern part of Harrisville. This map is based on a survey conducted by Thomas Fisk in 1853, which Samuel Wadsworth revisited in 1906, making additions and corrections. It centers on Dublin Village, outlined in red, and Monadnock Lake, which looms large in the lower-left corner. Also shown are portions of Harrisville, Malboro, Jaffrey, and Peterboro. The key in the lower-left corner identifies highways, defunct roads, private roads, trails, buildings, and sites of former buildings. Other details include churches, villages, schools, reservoirs, and bodies of water (colored blue). The Boston & Maine Railroad crosses the upper portion of the map. Elevations and some other details are derived from a map created by the U.S. Geological Survey. A scale is provided at lower right, and relief is shown by hachure and spot heights. Writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau both visited Dublin and its environs and wrote about the area’s appealing qualities, and Mark Twain vacationed there as well. In the late nineteenth century, Dublin became home to the Dublin Art Colony through the painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921), who arrived there in 1888. Thayer’s dynamic personality and established artistic reputation attracted a group of artists such as George de Forest Brush and Frank Benson, as well as a range of students he taught, including Barry Faulkner, Alexander James, Rockwell Kent, and Richard Meryman. The artistic activity Thayer set in motion lasted some sixty years. Active in the early twentieth century, C. J. Peters & Son Co. was based in Boston. Other maps the company produced include Map of Massachusetts showing state highways laid out and petitioned for (1906), Tri-State Trolley Map Showing Boston and Northern and Old Colony Street Railway Companies’ Systems and Connecting Lines [1907], and Middlesex Fells Reservation [1919]. OCLC records six copies, at the New York Public Library, New Hampshire Historical Society, Yale, Harvard, Boston Athenaeum, and University of Minnesota. REFERENCES: Clark, Edie. “Inspired by God: The Artists of Mount Monadnock, 1888-1950” (2008) at Monadnock Art online.
Item #7894
Price: $1,250.00
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