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Mapping a City Under Siege: Henry Pelham Virtual Talk
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In 1775, Henry Pelham, aspiring artist and half brother of the famed John Singleton Copley, found himself inside a city under siege. A loyalist with ample time and nowhere to go, Pelham gained permission from the British military to map the war developing around him. Though many other engineers mapped Boston in 1775 and 1776, Pelham’s artistic eye and intimate loyalist connections resulted in something unparalleled in how it depicts the landscape of the first chapter of a civil war. Today, his work is immensely valuable in helping us understand and reconstruct a Boston under siege 250 years ago.
This online program is co-presented by the National Park Service and the Boston Public Library. It will happen over a Zoom webinar.
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