Harbor of Boston, with the City in the Distance

In this late-afternoon view of Boston Harbor (c. 1846–47), Fitz Henry Lane captured the diffuse quality of sunlight reflecting off water. The son of a shipbuilder, he painted ships and their rigging with painstaking accuracy. On the far left, a steamboat that ferried passengers between Boston and Gloucester signals the new technology of the age.

Printed on 200 gsm museum-quality matte paper from the museum’s high-resolution open-access image, with a white border so nothing of the original is cropped. Available from A4 up to 70 × 100 cm, or as a digital download to print yourself.

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