Boston. Federal Street Theatre

Title:: Boston. Federal Street Theatre
Engraver:: Kilburn, Samuel Smith
Date:: [1881]
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Wood engravings
Proofs
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Boston Pictorial Archive
Series:: Commercial Buildings > Music Halls & Theaters
Subjects:: Theaters
Boston Theatre (Federal Street, Boston, Mass.)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Downtown Crossing
Former site of the Federal Street Theatre
Extent:: 1 print ; 3 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.
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Notes:: Title from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library.
Handwritten note on item: Federal St. Theatre - first in Boston. Proof for illus. in Winsor's Memorial Hist. of Boston, v. 4.
Published in: Justin Winsor's The Memorial History of Boston, Vol. 4, 1882, p. 363
The theatre depicted is the first Federal Street Theatre, designed by Charles Bulfinch and opened in 1793. This building was destroyed by fire in 1798 and replaced by another building, also designed by Bulfinch. The second building survived as a theatre until it was demolished in 1852. From Winsor, “This cut is based on a water-color painting, 14 by 7 3/4 inches, representing the theatre on fire, with groups of allegorical figures in the foreground." The watercolor is now at the Bostonian Society.
Notes (acquisition):: Acquired from E. Billings, Nov. 18, 1905
Notes (date):: Date supplied by cataloger.
This date is inferred.
Identifier:: 08_02_000374
Call #:: Map 38.12 No. 14 (no longer used)