{"id":64702,"date":"2024-07-05T03:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T03:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=64702"},"modified":"2024-07-05T18:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:03:42","slug":"a-view-of-the-town-in-1762","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/a-view-of-the-town-in-1762\/","title":{"rendered":"A view of “the town in 1762”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s ‘Picture Postal’, from the Providence Magazine<\/em>, the local Board of Trade magazine in 1915. This was the ‘early view’ Lovecraft was referring to in a letter written after he visited the Shepley Library<\/a> in Providence in 1923. I thank Ken Faig Jr. for the identification.<\/p>\n

there is one monstrous fine drawing of the town in 1762 […] precisely what I had long wish’d to see<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Thus the Curator was not being snide or fobbing off Lovecraft, when he suggested that he could have a copy… if another was found to exist in the archives. It was not an antiquity, and the archives might indeed have a duplicate copy of a liberally-dispensed magazine from less than a decade ago. Or there might be duplicate prints of such a modern item.<\/p>\n

It’s possible Lovecraft may have seen the more expansive un-cropped version, and in a less harsh contrast…<\/p>\n

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His use of the word “monstrous” perhaps even indicates he saw the original large sheets, meant to be transferred by tracing to a stage backdrop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s ‘Picture Postal’, from the Providence Magazine, the local Board of Trade magazine in 1915. This was the ‘early …<\/p>\n

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