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.
[img]http://zoom.mfa.org/fif=sc1/sc157126.fpx&obj=iip,1...
And, from earlier today, May 20, 2012.
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/36005237@N00/7236883788/][img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8147/7236883788_7010...
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/36005237@N00/7236883788/]Boston Common in mid-afternoon[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/36005237@N00/]JohnAKeith[/url], on Flickr
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well done
By anon
Sun, 05/20/2012 - 6:51pm
Always thought of doing this, but never got around to it. Glad someone did!
Me too
By Parallax
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.
Very Nice!
By anon
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."