ORIGINAL 1962 'A PROSPECT OF A COLLEGE HILL IN THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE - THE PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY - ISSUED AND COPYRIGHTED BY THE SOCIETY 1962' PICTORIAL MAP by ROSALIND HOWE STURGES (1907-1999)
This is just a great original piece. Anyone that follows my store knows that I have been selling quite a few pictorial maps over the last few years. This is one I have never come across, which surprises me as I am in Rhode Island at auctions and sales a few times a month. This is an incredible scarce original 1962 Pictorial map of Providence Rhode Island by Rosalind Howe Sturges. Sturges is one of the more important 20th Century pictorial map artists. For those not familiar with her, I have included her biography below. (If you have a particular interest in her, I also have the very special original hand done map of Philadelphia). This is a wonderful large print measuring 21 x 31 inches. Excellent original condition. Clean and fresh. A few very minor handling creases but nothing of concern. If you frame it they will disappear. Do your own research on this scarce map. I cant find another example out there anywhere. Map is stored in a tube and will be shipped that way. FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES!
For those not familiar with the artist, her biography from a dealer that sells her maps reads: "Rosalind Howe Sturges [Allen] was an artist and architectural cartographer known for her illustrated pictorial maps that place historic buildings in a geographic context. Born Rosalind Howe, she was the daughter of an antiques dealer and an architect, and became interested in historic architecture at a young age. Sturges (her married name, which she used professionally for most of her life) made her first pictorial map of Vassar College the year she graduated, in 1928. Most of her pictorial maps were commissions and depicted locations in New England and the Mid-Atlantic region, including Annapolis, Maryland; Bristol and Providence, Rhode Island; Chestnut Hill, Fairmount Park, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Blackstone Valley, Deerfield, Groton, Hingham, Princeton, and Worcester, Massachusetts; and the campuses of Wellesley College (1943) and Vassar College (1928). Among her major bird’s-eye view maps is her wall map Philadelphia (1971) “whose architecture reflects three centuries of cultural amity,” published by Girard Bank. Perhaps her best-known map was New England’s Architectural Heritage, 1636-1886 for Yankee magazine’s special U.S. Bicentennial issue in 1976. Widowed in 1975, Howe married her second husband Dana Allen in 1983. Today Vassar College houses her papers, including the preparatory drawings, photographs and research materials for her maps. "