Antique Print Description

Details:

• Title: Shot Tower at Baltimore
• Type: Original Antique Wood Engraved Print
• Publication: Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Boston, MA.
• Date: 1856
• Artist: Unknown
• Grade: Very good with mild age toning, some minor foxing and staining in margins.
• Size: Two full pages (11" x 15") with four engravings.

Item Description:
These are four wood engravings and the descriptive text on two pages from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion (1856). The name of the tower is actually Merchant's Shot Tower at the corner of Front and Fayette Streets in Baltimore. It was previously called the Phoenix Shot Tower. The corner stone was laid by Charles Carroll of Carrolton on June 2, 1838. He was the last survivor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. It became Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1855, after managing editor Maturin Murray Ballou bought out the interest of Gleason. The magazine absorbed the Illustrated News of New York in 1853. Many aspiring American artists, such as Winslow Homer, began as illustrators for the newspaper.

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