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| OLD SOUTH. The Meeting House is one of the historic Crown Jewels in Boston, where on Dec. 16 1773 organizers of the Boston Tea Party gathered. Most of the prominent Revolutionary War Patriots from Massachusetts were familiar visitors to the edifice, which was built in 1729 and was the largest building in Boston at that time. Casey's 4 x 5 inch daguerreotype is framed with a modern brass mat and presented in a beautiful Burl wood frame ready for display. He made this outstanding image as the late autumn sun was setting. The foreground and lower portion of the archivally sealed piece has an ethereal feel with hints of movement from passersby (or maybe spirits from the past). The soaring wooden steeple supported by a brick constructed tower visually surpasses the heights of the nearby skyscrapers due to an optical illusion. While dwarfed in actuality, this image places the structure in a position of prominence that it aptly deserves. The turn-of-the-century building behind Old South caught the waning light reflected in those rows of windows while fluorescent illumination in the modern towers reveals employees still at work. This is an architectural triumph on silver folks. I should mention that blue haziness is invisible to me. My reproduction doesn't reveal the depth and magic as the view is admired. $750 |
