{"title":"Pre-Revolution (1750–1774)","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"british-troops-landing-1768","title":"British Troops Landing, 1768","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eEight warships sit in Boston Harbor with their guns trained on the town. Paul Revere engraved this view of British troops marching up Long Wharf after Parliament sent regiments to suppress riots following the Townshend Acts of 1767. This 1870 chromolithograph reproduces Revere's original 1770 print. The same year as the Boston Massacre, which unfolded just blocks from this landing site.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe warships in the harbor. Revere drew eight vessels in formation, their flags clearly visible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe column of red-coated troops marching up Long Wharf toward the town center.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe church steeples along the skyline. Revere used them to establish the identity of each neighborhood.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"12×18","offer_id":47271567294642,"sku":"FOLIO-4m90f850d-POSTER-12x18","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20×30","offer_id":47271567392946,"sku":"FOLIO-4m90f850d-POSTER-20x30","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/4m90f850d-12x18.jpg?v=1775761454"},{"product_id":"boston-plan-francais-1764","title":"Boston, Plan Francais, 1764","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eJean Lattre, Royal Engraver to Louis XVI, published this plan of Boston a decade before the Revolution. The French title and elegant hand coloring in soft green and pink reflect European fascination with the colonial port city. Soundings fill the harbor, a ward index labels each neighborhood, and the street plan captures Boston at its pre-war peak. Compact, prosperous, and still connected to the mainland by the narrow Boston Neck. Lattre was working from the best available surveys, and the result is one of the most detailed views of the city in the years before everything changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe harbor soundings are written in fathoms, marking where ships could safely anchor and where the shoals began.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe ward index listing each of Boston's neighborhoods, a snapshot of the city's internal geography before the Revolution.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eBoston Neck at the southern edge. The single narrow land bridge connecting the peninsula to the mainland, and the only way in or out by land.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"12×18","offer_id":47271575093426,"sku":"FOLIO-cj82m019d-POSTER-12x18","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20×30","offer_id":47271575191730,"sku":"FOLIO-cj82m019d-POSTER-20x30","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/cj82m019d-12x16.jpg?v=1775761679"},{"product_id":"ye-great-town-of-boston-1769","title":"Ye Great Town of Boston, 1769","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThis is the final major plan of Boston before the Revolution. William Price inherited the plate from John Bonner in 1726 and updated it for over forty years, adding streets in the south and west, expanding Boston Neck, and replacing Bonner's perspective buildings with flat shading. A decorative cartouche, added to compete with William Burgis' rival plan, anchors the upper portion. The map was printed and sold at the King's Head, and it captures every wharf, lane, and alley of a town about to become the center of an independence movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe decorative cartouche Price added to compete with Burgis' rival Boston plan. It's the map's most prominent ornamental feature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe buildings along the wharves are shown as shading rather than tiny perspective drawings. Price modernized Bonner's original technique over four decades of updates.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eBoston Neck at the south: Price added numerous streets and buildings along this narrow land bridge in his later editions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271577616562,"sku":"FOLIO-3f462v496-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12×18","offer_id":47271577714866,"sku":"FOLIO-3f462v496-POSTER-12x18","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20×30","offer_id":47271577911474,"sku":"FOLIO-3f462v496-POSTER-20x30","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/3f462v496-11x14.jpg?v=1775761744"},{"product_id":"plan-de-la-ville-de-boston-1764","title":"Plan de la Ville de Boston, 1764","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eJacques Nicolas Bellin drew this page-sized plan for a French audience, published in his Petite Atlas Maritime. The legend identifies fortifications, churches, and public buildings. The landmarks a French naval officer or diplomat would want to locate. Hand-colored in warm rose and terra cotta for land, light blue-green for water, it renders Boston and Charlestown as compact European-style settlements. Numbered 'Tome I, No. 31' in the upper margin, this is one page in a systematic French survey of the world's ports, produced a decade before those same ports became battlegrounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe legend identifies fortifications and churches by number, each traceable to its location on the map, revealing what the French considered worth knowing about Boston.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe French labels throughout the map; 'Ville de Boston' and the surrounding nomenclature frame a familiar city in a foreign language.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe scale relative to the page. Bellin fit the entire peninsula into a 30-by-23-centimeter sheet, compressing Boston to pocket size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"8×10","offer_id":47271602421938,"sku":"FOLIO-3t947b88n-POSTER-8x10","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271602520242,"sku":"FOLIO-3t947b88n-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12×16","offer_id":47211040932018,"sku":"FOLIO-3t947b88n-POSTER-12x16","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/3t947b88n-8x10.jpg?v=1775762396"}],"url":"https:\/\/foliomaps.co\/collections\/pre-revolution-1750-1774.oembed","provider":"Folio Maps","version":"1.0","type":"link"}