Map, Massachusetts, Concord, Pictorial, Alva Scott Garfield, Vintage Print, c. 1960s

Alva Scott Garfield (artist)
A Scott-Map of Concord Massachusetts
Scott-Maps, Madison, New Hampshire: c. 1950-60s
Color photo-process print
20.5 x 27 inches, image
22 x 28 inches, overall
$550

Colorful pictorial map of Concord, Massachusetts, a town that played major roles in the Revolutionary War and 19th-century American literature. Historic buildings and locations are shown with pictorial illustrations, including: Walden Pond, Emerson’s House, School of Philosophy, Buttrick House, Old Manse and Fenn School. Other illustrations depict settlers making a treaty with Native Americans at the founding of Concord, and battle and troop movements in past wars. Lettered with information and quotations related to Concord’s history. The decorative border features Concord grapes on the vine, and a cartouche with a Revolutionary War Minuteman.n In the western portion of the map is a small scroll with a verse by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great American poet who lived in Concord: “In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes/ I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods./ Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why/ This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,/ Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,/ Then Beauty is its own excuse for being./ Emerson.”

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