Engel, (Louis) William "Dane Law-School, Cambridge Mass” [Harvard University]

(Louis) William Engel.  “Dane Law-School, Cambridge Mass.”  [Harvard University]  Boston, circa. 1852-54. 6 1/4 x 7 1/4.  Lithograph.  Mounted on another sheet with lithographed decorative borders.  Some waving in paper due to two pieces of paper adhered.  Very scarce.   A lovely architectural rendering, this view of the Harvard University Law School shows the building after 1845 when a long transverse ell was added.  The architecture of the building is carefully depicted, and a horse drawn bus that ran from Cambridge to Boston is shown in the foreground.  Evidently this is a very scarce print as described in Hamilton Vaughan Bail’s Views of Harvard, page 232, plate 62.  Perhaps for an album or portfolio.  The Boston Athenaeum has this print in a curious book titled Hartshorn’s Commercial Tables by John Hartshorn (Boston, 1852) with others by Engel.  The Athenaeum also has a lithograph by Engel with the lithographed decorative border. See Pierce and Slautterback, Boston Lithography,