Nathaniel Hurd

Nathaniel Hurd
Nathaniel Hurd
Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd by John Singleton Copley, ca.1765 (Cleveland Museum of Art)
Born(1730-02-13)February 13, 1730
Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay
DiedDecember 17, 1777(1777-12-17) (aged 47)
Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Occupation(s)engraver and silversmith

Nathaniel Hurd (13 February 1730 – 17 December 1777)[1][2] is recognized as the first American engraver and a silversmith in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century.[3] He engraved "bookplates ... heraldic devices, seals, ... paper currency, and business cards" along with die engravers and engravers on copper.[4][5][1]

This elevation of the Old State House was drawn by Thomas Dawes and engraved by Hurd, after the building was rebuilt after a 1747 fire.[6]
  1. ^ a b Scientific American. Munn & Company. 1869-05-08. p. 294.
  2. ^ Ward, Gerald W. R. (February 2000). "Hurd, Nathaniel". American National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1700439. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7.
  3. ^ Charles Dexter Allen (1895), American book-plates, a guide to their study, London: George Bell & Sons, OCLC 1472039, OL 7058457M
  4. ^ "Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd by Copley." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Mar., 1923)
  5. ^ American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
  6. ^ Cummings, Abbott Lowell. "A Recently Discovered Engraving of the Old State House in Boston," Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2017. (https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/774) Retrieved August 2018.