Panoramic View of Hartford Buildings
ArtistDrawn by
Richard Welling
American, 1926 - 2009
Dateafter 1989
MediumPhotocopy; black toner on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 56 3/8 x 18 1/2in. (143.2 x 47cm)
Sheet (height x width): 56 3/8 x 18 1/2in. (143.2 x 47cm)
Sheet (height x width): 56 3/8 x 18 1/2in. (143.2 x 47cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of the Richard Welling Family
DescriptionReproduction of a panoramic drawing of buildings in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. From left to right, the buildings depicted include the YMCA, the Southern New England Telephone Company Building (55 on the Park), the SBC Building next to it (subsequently the AT&T Building), City Place, the Goodwin Building behind City Place, 280 Trumbull, 100 Pearl Street, One Corporate Center (the "Stilts Building"), One Financial Plaza and behind it Connecticut National Bank and the Hartford-Aetna Bank Building, the Hartford-Connecticut Trust Company Building, the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, and Travelers Tower with its skywalk to the Travelers Plaza Building. There are also a number of unidentified buildings pictured. Automobiles are on the streets and in parking lots, and pedestrians on the sidewalks.
Object number2012.284.4993
MarkingsVerso of sheet b, bottom left, stamped in gray ink: "The Estate of / RICHARD / WELLING" [in box]InscribedRecto, bottom left, handwritten in pencil: "54 3/4-IMAGE LENGTH"NotesDate Note: The date is based on the year 100 Pearl Street was constructed.Subject Terms
- Hartford (Conn.)
- YMCA
- YMCA of Greater Hartford
- Connecticut National Bank (Hartford, Conn.)
- One Corporate Center (Hartford, Conn.)
- One Financial Plaza (Hartford, Conn.)
- Hartford-Connecticut Trust Company (Hartford, Conn.)
- Travelers Insurance Company Building (Hartford, Conn.)
- Travelers Tower (Hartford, Conn.)
- 280 Trumbull Street (Hartford, Conn.)
- 100 Pearl Street (Hartford, Conn.)
- Southern New England Telephone Company Building (Hartford, Conn.)
- City Place (Hartford, Conn.)
- Goodwin Square (Hartford, Conn.)
- Buildings
- Automobiles
- Hartford-Aetna Bank Building (Hartford, Conn.)
- Photocopies
- Graphics Cataloging
- Richard Welling Collection
- Hartford
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- Richard Welling Collection
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