Item 108730 - View of Belfast from Roger's Hill, 1853
- Item 108730 - View of Belfast from Roger's Hill, 1853
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- Item 108730
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Image Info A view of the town of Belfast from Roger's Hill. Drawn by George H. Swift (1827-1893), the lithograph was published by Tappen & Bradford's Lithographers of Boston. The image, not drawn to scale, features the harbor, ships and the town of Belfast in the distance; with homesteads and several people standing in the foreground.
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The vantage point was from Roger's Hill, on the east side of the Passagassawakeag River. This lithograph was featured in Bowdoin College Museum of Art's 2019-2020 exhibition, "Maine’s Lithographic Landscapes: Town & City Views, 1830–1870," as well as the subsequent publication of the same name by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. (2020.)