Drawings by Joshua Green, ca. 1781-1784

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This small work appears to have been a preparatory drawing for A Plot of Cambridge Common. Although the proportions are slightly different from those of the Christ Church as depicted in that larger drawing, the building's features are identical.

Scope and Contents This small work appears to have been a preparatory drawing for A Plot of Cambridge Common. Although it does not resemble any of the buildings in that larger drawing precisely, it is done in the same style and at the same scale.Residents of the Holmes Place houses in 1781 included (from left to right): John Hastings, brother of Harvard College Steward Jonathan Hastings...

Scope and Contents This large drawing is believed by some scholars to be a mathematical thesis, submitted by Green in 1783 when he was a junior at Harvard College. He is known to have been assigned a mathematical part in an Exhibition held in April 1783, but it is not known if this drawing was the work he then presented. One of the buildings depicted in the drawing, Stoughton Hall, was demolished soon after a November 1781 vote authorized its destruction. The presence of Stoughton Hall in the drawing seems to...

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This drawing depicts Holden Chapel, Hollis Hall, Harvard Hall, and Massachusetts Hall. It also includes measurements of the distance between some of these buildings, and from Hollis Hall to Charlestown Road. This is the only drawing in this collection to which Green ascribed a date.

Scope and Contents This map of North America, carefully drawn in ink and watercolor, stretches from "part of Hudson's Bay" in the north to Punta Mala, Costa Rica, in the south. Costa Rica was colonized by Spain at the time Green drew this map. The map is drawn on a grid whose lines represent latitude and longitude; the "Tropick of Cancer" is labeled, as are the "heads" of the Mississippi River. It is not known if Green created this map as part of his work at Harvard College, or if it was created outside of an...