Museum Object Number1976.0238 |
Print (Engraving)
The Hon.\ble JOHN HANCOCK. Esq.\r
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase
Paul Revere Jr. (Engraver)
John Singleton Copley (Painter)
Isaiah Thomas (Publisher)
Paul Revere, son of a silversmith with the same name, apprenticed to his father in 1747. His father died in 1754, before Paul could complete his training. Although he was legally too young to inherit the business, he remained active there until he was twenty one, when he assumed control. During the ensuing five decades, Revere and his employees produced hundreds of household, personal, ceremonial, and commemorative silver artifacts for well-to-do Bostonians. Revere's daybooks record that he fabricated twenty-five ladles between 1781 and 1797, calling them tureen ladle, soup ladle, and in one instance, scalloped tureen ladle. For the most part, he made one in any given year, except for 1795, when he fashioned five, and 1796, when he made six.Isaiah Thomas was a minuteman and patriot printer who, over his lifetime, published over 400 titles, including The Massachusetts Spy. He was also the author of The History of Printing in America with a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers, 2 vols. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1810), and established the American Antiquarian Society in 1812. References: American National Biography; Encycopaedia Britannica; www.assumption.edu/ahc/1770s/print/isaiahthomasbio.html (for biography before and during the Revolution).
12/21/173407/03/173801/19/1749
05/10/181809/09/18151831
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
1774-1774
1. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; P Revere Sc
Portrait; Allegory
Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)
Engraved, Etched, Hand colored, Line engraved, Painted
8.3 (H) , 4.9 (W) , 4.1 (Image H) , 3.7 (Image W)
21 (H) , 12.4 (W) , 4.1 (Image H) , 3.7 (Image W)
Thomas, Isaiah
03//1774
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
Hand colored with watercolors
Frontispiece from The Royal American Magazine, or, Universal Repository of Instruction and Amusement, vol. 1, no. 5. (Boston: Isaiah Thomas, March 1774).
Text available soon.
[Book] Brigham, Clarence S. 1954 Paul Revere's Engravings.
• See pp. 82-4, pl. 34.