Reproduction of a painting of the Boston wharves with a three-masted ship, side view, in the foreground; she has a compass rose on her foresail, and flies the American flag. More ships in the background, and a small rowboat, stern view, in the left third of the foreground. Printed in lower margin, "THE WHARVES OF BOSTON IN 1829. (See Page 37.)"
The painting reproduced here was painted in 1829, and presented to the Bostonian Society in the winter of 1893-1894.
