An image of Boston just one month prior to the outbreak of hostilities at Lexington and Concord. The perspective of the view is from Cambridge looking across the Charles River at the city directly in front of Boston Common. The original image was drawn by Governor Thomas Pownall and published in the exceedingly rare ‘Scenographia Americana’ in 1768. This print was published in the ‘Universal Magazine’ in March 1775. It accompanied an article on the rebelling people of New England. The view would also be copied for the December 1787 issue of the ‘Columbian Magazine’ published in Philadelphia. In that view the flag was altered from a Union Jack to the American stars and stripes.