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Boston Common at Mid-afternoon

By JohnAKeith on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 6:04pm

A then-and-now.

It's like a mirror!

Boston Common at Twilight by Childe Hassam, 1885-1886, from the Museum of Fine Arts collection.

IMAGE(http://zoom.mfa.org/fif=sc1/sc157126.fpx&obj=iip,1.0&wid=568&cell=568,427&cvt=jpeg)

And, from earlier today, May 20, 2012.

IMAGE(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8147/7236883788_70106588d3.jpg)
Boston Common in mid-afternoon by JohnAKeith, on Flickr

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Comments

By anon on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 6:51pm.

Always thought of doing this, but never got around to it. Glad someone did!

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By Parallax on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 2:54pm.

Whenever Adam posts old photos from the BPL's Flickr pool I think how cool it would be to try to recreate them. For some reason it seems even cooler to "update" a painting.

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By anon on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 7:25pm.

And the first thing I thought when I saw this was, "Yes, that's Boston - people barely shovel their sidewalks now, and didn't then either."

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