COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
80-182
Record number:
80-182-1
JCB call number:
DC M414 1791 (Jan.-June)
Image title:
The Hon. James Bowdoin, Esq. L. L. D. F. R. S.
Creator 1:
Samuel Hill
Creator 1 dates:
d. 1804
Creator 1 role:
St.
Place image published:
[Boston]
Image publisher:
[I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews]
Image date:
[1791]
Image function:
Plate I; following p. [4]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
9.5 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
21cm.
Page dimension width:
13 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Portrait silhouette profile of James Bowdoin.
Source Title:
The Massachusetts magazine, or Monthly museum ... Vol. III. For 1791
Source place of publication:
Printed at Boston
Source publisher:
By I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews ...
Source date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
notes:
Bowdoin held positions in both colonial and state offices and was governor of Massachusetts during Shays' Rebellion; his vigorous action to put it down lost him the subsequent election. He was president of the Massachusetts Constitution Convention and founded the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1980.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790
The Hon. James Bowdoin, Esq. L. L. D. F. R. S.
