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Old North Church

Artist Harold Broadfield Warren (American, 1859–1934)
Title Old North Church
Date 1907
Medium Watercolor on paper
Dimensions Image: 14 × 10 in. (35.6 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 10 in. (35.6 × 25.4 cm)
Framed: 21 1/4 × 17 3/16 × 2 1/4 in. (54 × 43.7 × 5.7 cm)
Credit Line Morton and Marie Bradley Memorial Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 2003.15

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Born in Manchester, England, Harold Broadfield Warren moved to the United States in 1876, and settled in Boston. From the mid-1880s he traveled extensively in Italy, Greece, England, and the Canadian Rockies. Influenced by the English aesthetician John Ruskin, Warren produced meticulous watercolors during his travels, carefully recording architecture and landscapes. He taught architectural drawing at Harvard from 1904 to 1930. This street scene from that period depicts Boston's historic Old North Church, which held two lanterns in its bell tower on April 18, 1775, as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were coming by sea, igniting the American Revolution.


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