B. F. Smith Jr. Lithograph View of the Water Celebration on Boston Common

SMITH, B. F. Jr. (19th Century).
View of the Water Celebration on Boston Common, Oct. 25, 1848.
Lithograph with original hand color.
Boston: Tappan & Badfords, c. 1849.
27 1/4" x 38 3/4" sheet.

The fabulous Smith Brothers. "During an eight-year period beginning in 1848, the four Smith brothers issued a remarkably fine series of large folio city views. A few of these were engraved, but about forty others were lithographed by highly skilled printers in Boston and New York." John Reps. The prints that they produced as a rule were large, imposing, detailed, accurate and quite beautiful.