Haymarket Theatre Visual Elements
Visual Elements
This watercolor painting examines the southeast corner of the Boston Common in the 1790s. Three buildings are shown in the picture: the Haymarket Theatre, Hatch's Tavern, and the William Foster house. Behind the buildings is a gradient sky while humans are shown laboring on the landscape in the foreground. This patch of land is enclosed by fences and the trees of the Mall. Beyond this point is the edge of the Boston Common. Titled Haymarket Theatre, Boston, September 28, 1798, this picture highlights the largest building in the image. Although it does not occupy the majority of the image, it is portrayed to be much taller than Hatch's Tavern or the William Foster house. In 1796, the Haymarket Theatre was the largest theater built in America, capable of hosting around 2,000 people (Stoddard 1975, p. 65). Because of its historic capacity, the building likely was quite large in comparison the the tavern and house adjacent to it.
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- Haymarket Theatre, Boston, September 28, 1798 Fahim Rahman