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"accession_number": "1915.534",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Nathaniel Hurd, c. 1765. John Singleton Copley (American, born The Thirteen Colonies, 1738\u20131815). Oil on canvas; framed: 90.5 x 78 x 6.5 cm (35 5/8 x 30 11/16 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 76.2 x 64.8 cm (30 x 25 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1915.534",
"current_location": "204 Colonial American",
"title": "Nathaniel Hurd",
"creation_date": "c. 1765",
"creation_date_earliest": 1760,
"creation_date_latest": 1770,
"artists_tags": [
"male"
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"culture": [
"America"
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"technique": "oil on canvas",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "American Painting and Sculpture",
"collection": "American - Painting",
"type": "Painting",
"measurements": "Framed: 90.5 x 78 x 6.5 cm (35 5/8 x 30 11/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 64.8 cm (30 x 25 1/2 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"framed": {
"height": 0.905,
"height_inch": 35,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.625,
"width": 0.78,
"width_inch": 30,
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"depth": 0.065,
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},
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"width": 0.648,
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"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 317001,
"title": "Inaugural Exhibition",
"description": "Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).",
"opening_date": "1916-06-06T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 312517,
"title": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition",
"description": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).",
"opening_date": "1936-06-26T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 312341,
"title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
"description": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).",
"opening_date": "1941-06-23T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 705378,
"title": "Silver and American Tradition",
"description": "Silver and American Tradition. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (organizer) (February 13-March 19, 1953).",
"opening_date": "1953-02-13T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 304248,
"title": "Style, Truth and the Portrait",
"description": "Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).",
"opening_date": "1963-10-01T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 520707,
"title": "Four Centuries of American Masterpieces",
"description": "Four Centuries of American Masterpieces. 1964 New York World's Fair, New York, NY (May 1-October 18, 1964).",
"opening_date": "1964-05-01T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 520960,
"title": "John Singleton Copley: A Retrospective Exhibition",
"description": "John Singleton Copley: A Retrospective Exhibition. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (organizer) (September 18-October 31, 1965); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (November 20, 1965-January 2, 1966); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (January 22-March 6, 1966).",
"opening_date": "1965-09-18T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 444647,
"title": "The Face of Liberty",
"description": "The Face of Liberty. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (December 23, 1975-February 8, 1976).",
"opening_date": "1975-12-23T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 417433,
"title": "John Singleton Copley's America",
"description": "John Singleton Copley's America. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (June 7-August 27, 1995); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (September 26, 1995-January 7, 1996); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (February 4-April 28, 1996).",
"opening_date": "1995-06-07T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 222076,
"title": "Nathaniel Hurd",
"description": "Nathaniel Hurd. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY (November 22, 1999-April 10, 2000).",
"opening_date": "1999-11-22T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 180609,
"title": "CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits",
"description": "CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29-December 17, 2006).",
"opening_date": "2006-08-29T00:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": [
{
"description": "Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Inaugural Exhibition (6 June-20 September, 1916); cat. p. 255.",
"opening_date": "1916-06-06T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, One Hundred Colonial Portraits (19 June-21 September 1930), cat. no. 50.",
"opening_date": "1930-06-19T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October, 1936), illus. plate II, cat. no. 23, pp. 21-22.",
"opening_date": "1936-06-26T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, An Exhibition of Paintings by John Singleton Copley: In Commemoration of the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth (22 December, 1936-14 February, 1937), illus. 16.",
"opening_date": "1936-12-22T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Two Hundred Years of American Painting, (15 January-28 February, 1938), no. 2.",
"opening_date": "1938-01-15T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "New Haven, Yale University Gallery of Fine Arts, Masterpieces of New England Silver 1650-1800, (18 June-10 September, 1939), ill. no. 224, p. 94.",
"opening_date": "1939-06-18T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Flint, Mich., Flint Institute of Arts, Art Marches On: The Opening and Dedicating Exhibition of the New Flint Institute of Arts (14 November-31 December, 1941), illus no. 53, p. 30.",
"opening_date": "1941-11-14T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Oberlin, Ohio, The Dudley P. Allen Memorial Art Museum, The Arts in the Americas in the Eighteenth Century (1946), cat. no. 1 (see Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, vol. III, no. 3 (May, 1946).",
"opening_date": "1946-05-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Dallas, The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Survey of American Painting from 1700 to the Present (5 October - 3 November 1946); cat. 200 Years of American Painting.",
"opening_date": "1946-10-05T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Denver, The Denver Art Museum, American Heritage: An Exhibitions of Paintings and Crafts 1770-1790 (7 March-11 April 1948), ill. p. 9.",
"opening_date": "1948-03-07T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Denver, The Denver Art Museum, Portraiture Through the Ages (9 January - 15 February 1950).",
"opening_date": "1950-01-09T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, George Washington's World (15 January - 14 February 1954), cat. no. 5.",
"opening_date": "1954-01-15T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Colonial Silversmiths, Masters and Apprentices (13 November - 30 December 1956).",
"opening_date": "1956-11-13T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Jewett Art Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, Four Boston Masters (10 April-11 May, 1959), cat. no. 8, repr. p. 25; traveled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (19 May - 26 June 1959).",
"opening_date": "1959-04-10T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Style, Truth and the Portrait (1 October -10 November, 1963), ill. cat. no. 29.",
"opening_date": "1963-10-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "New York, The Gallery at The Better Living Center, New York World's Fair, Four Centuries of American Masterpieces (22 May-18 October 1964), p. 18, illus. p. 18; (arranged by the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture).",
"opening_date": "1964-05-22T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, John Singleton Copley, 1738-1815 (18 September - 31 October 1965), pp. 45-9, illus. p. 47; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (20 November 1965 - 2 January 1966); traveled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (22 January - 6 February 1966).",
"opening_date": "1965-09-18T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, The Face of Liberty: Founders of the United States (23 December 1975 - 8 February 1976), illus. colorplate 16.",
"opening_date": "1975-12-23T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Silver in American Life (24 June - 16 August 1981); exhibited in gallery but not in catalogue.",
"opening_date": "1981-06-24T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, John Singleton Copley in America (7 June - 27 August 1995), traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (26 September 1995 - 7 January 1996), traveled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts (4 February - 28 April 1996), did not travel to Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum; cat. no. 21, p. 57, 93, 119, 208-11, 248, 300, 312.",
"opening_date": "1995-06-07T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, ABOUT FACE: Copley's Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd, Colonial Silversmith and Engraver, (1 November 1999-1 March 2000), see Porticus journal.",
"opening_date": "1999-11-01T00:00:00"
}
]
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "Benjamin Hurd [1739-1781], Halifax, Nova Scotia, by descent to his son, John Hurd",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "-1781",
"sortorder": null
},
{
"description": "John Hurd, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by descent to his two daughters",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1781-",
"sortorder": null
},
{
"description": "Daughters of John Hurd [d. by 1860], Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Mrs. Thomas Barry",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "-by 1860",
"sortorder": null
},
{
"description": "Mrs. Thomas Barry [d. 1869], Halifax, Nova Scotia, by gift to Walter Wesselhoeft",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "By 1860-1869",
"sortorder": null
},
{
"description": "Walter Wesselhoeft [1838-1920], Cambridge, MA, consigned to the Copley Gallery",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1869-1915",
"sortorder": null
},
{
"description": "(Copley Gallery, Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1915",
"sortorder": null
},
{
"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1915-",
"sortorder": null
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [
"350.1915"
],
"did_you_know": "The artist Copley\u2019s in-laws were consignees for the cargo dumped during the Boston Tea Party.",
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "Hurd was a prominent silversmith and engraver in Boston, and the warm gaze and unforced smile in his portrait by Copley suggest the friendship between the two artists. Hurd's open-collared shirt, as well as the rakishly tilted turban that covers his shaved head in place of a ceremonial powdered wig, create an air of informality that is unusual for a portrait of this time.",
"external_resources": {
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"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60502218"
],
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"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1915.534-nathaniel-hurd"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH, London: Cleveland Museum of Art ; in association with Scala Publishers, 2012.",
"page_number": "Mentioned, p. 220; reproduced, p. 221.",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Lange, Amanda E., \"We Are Family: Heraldic Decorative Arts in Early America,\" Historic Deerfield 14 (Autumn 2013).",
"page_number": "Mentioned, p. 3; reproduced, p. 4.",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Perkins, Augustus Thorndike. A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley. Boston: Priv. Print, 1873.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 17, 75-6",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Bayley, Frank W. The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley: Founded on the Work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins. Boston, MA: Taylor Press, 1915.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 151-152",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "W. H. D. \"The Fine Arts: Fine Portrait by Copley.\" The Boston Transcript, October, 1915.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The American Art News. 14:23 (March 11, 1916): 1-10.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 5",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"Clevel'd Gets Early Am'ns.\" The American Art News. 14:24 (March 18, 1916): 1-8.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 1",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"The Inauguration.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 3:2 (July, 1916): 1-24.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: opposite p. 1",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Bell, Hamilton. \"Early American Portraits at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" The American Magazine of Art. 7:12 (October, 1916).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 484-5; Reproduced: p. 485",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. An Appreciation of Copley's \"Nathaniel Hurd\": John Huntington Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1918.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"Special Exhibition Cabinet.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 5:1. (January 1918).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25136158"
},
{
"citation": "Dunlap, William. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States. 1. Boston: C.E. Goodspeed & Co, 1918.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 172-4; Reproduced: opposite p. 173",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"Report of the Museum's Second Year.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 6/7 (1918): 69-79.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 71",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25136208"
},
{
"citation": "Clearwater, Alphonso Trumpbour, and C. Louise Avery. American Silver of the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study Based on the Clearwater Collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 101",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"Early Portrait Study by Copley.\" Art News. 22:19 (February 16, 1923).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 9",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "L. P. \"Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd by Copley.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 10:3 (March 1923).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 39-40",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"When Copley Portrayed an Early Craftsman.\" Art News. (June 9, 1923).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 4",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.), Washington Loan Exhibition Committee. Exhibition of Early American Paintings, Miniatures and Silver. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1925.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 80",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 7-8; Reproduced: p. 8",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n10"
},
{
"citation": "Dow, George Francis. The Arts & Crafts in New England, 1704-1775; Gleanings from Boston Newspapers Relating to Painting, Engraving, Silversmiths, Pewterers, Clockmakers, Furniture, Pottery, Old Houses, Costume, Trades and Occupations, & C... Topsfield, MA: Wayside Press, 1927.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 8; Reproduced: frontispiece",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 8",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n12"
},
{
"citation": "Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 8",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928#page=12"
},
{
"citation": "Bayley, Frank W. Five Colonial Artists of New England: Joseph Badger, Joseph Blackburn, John Singleton Copley; Robert Feke, John Smibert. Boston, MA: Privately Printed, 1929.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 229",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Bolton, Theodore and Harry Lorin Binsse. \"John Singleton Copley.\" The Antiquarian. 15:6 (December, 1930).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 80-81",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Stark, Harold. Art in America from 1600 to 1865; An Illustrated Guide for a National Radio Broadcast from February 3 to May 19, 1934. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1934.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 19",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Cahill, Holger, and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., eds. Art in America: A Complete Survey. New York, NY: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 17; Reproduced: p. 18",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Milliken, William. \"Special Number for the 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition.\" The Art News. (June 13, 1936).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 14",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Burroughs, Louise. \"John Singleton Copley.\" Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 31:12 (December 1936).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 254",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Frankfurter, Alfred M. \"J. S. Copley, American Master.\" Art News. 35:13 (December 26, 1936).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 12",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Jewell, Edward Alden. \"Copley: Metropolitan Opens Bicentennial Show.\" The New York Times, December 27, 1936.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 9",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Parker, Barbara Neville, and Anne Bolling Wheeler. John Singleton Copley; American Portraits in Oil, Pastel, and Miniature. Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1938.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 118-9, pl. 61A",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "French, Hollis. Jacob Hurd and His Sons Nathaniel & Benjamin: Silversmiths 1702-1781. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press for the Walpole Society, 1939.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: frontispiece; Mentioned: pp. 138-40",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"Loans to Important Exhibitions.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 7 (July 1939): 123",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 123",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138029"
},
{
"citation": "Hagen, Oskar. The Birth of the American Tradition in Art. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 89; Mentioned: pp. 102-105",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Foote, Helen S. \"A Collection of Early American Silver Gift of Hollis French.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 27:9 (November, 1940).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 135",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Flint Institute of Arts. Art Marches on!: The Opening and Dedicating Exhibition of the New Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI: The Institute, 1941.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 30, fig. 50",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Milliken, William. \"Silver Jubilee Exhibition.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no.6 (June 1941): 88-108",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 88",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140932"
},
{
"citation": "\"Cleveland's First 25 Years.\" ARTnews. 40:11 (September, 1941).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 13, 25; Reproduced: p. 13",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Walker, John, and Macgill James. Great American Paintings from Smibert to Bellows, 1729-1924. London: Oxford University Press, 1943.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 10",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"Cleveland Museum.\" Life (September 20, 1943).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 68",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "King, Winnifred. \"Their Hands.\" The Christian Science Monitor. November 20, 1943.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Adams, James Truslow. Album of American History. volume 1. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 345",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 12",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n20"
},
{
"citation": "\"The Arts in America in the Eighteenth Century.\" Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. 3:3 (May, 1946).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 67, 90, 99; Reproduced: p. 66",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Phillips, John Marshall. American Silver. New York, NY: Chanticleer Press, 1949.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 82-6; Reproduced: p. 83",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Barker, Virgil. American Painting: History and Interpretation. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1950.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 144, 147-8; Reproduced: p. 145",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"A bird's-eye view of early American painting.\" Antiques. 62 (November 1952).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 402",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 60",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 529",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n96"
},
{
"citation": "\"Portraits of American Craftsmen.\" Antiques. 76. (October 1959).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 321",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Larkin, Oliver W. Art and Life in America. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 1",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Kindlers Malerei Lexicon. volume 1. Zurich, Switzerland: 1964.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 776",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg. Inaugural Exhibition, February 7 Through March 7, 1965. Saint Petersburg, FL: 1965.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 161",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n184"
},
{
"citation": "Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley: In America 1738-1774. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 52-55; Reproduced: no. 177",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Wright, Louis B., George B. Tatum, John W. McCoubrey, and Robert C. Smith. The Arts In America: The Colonial Period. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 204",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Wilson, Patricia Boyd. The Christian Science Monitor. January 19, 1966.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Myers, Bernard S. Art and Civilization. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 319-320; Reproduced: p. 319",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Cirker, Hayward, and Blanche Cirker. Dictionary of American Portraits: 4045 Pictures of Important Americans from Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1967",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 322",
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"citation": "McLanathan, Richard B. K. The American Tradition in the Arts. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 91-2",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 161",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n184"
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"citation": "Plate, Robert. John Singleton Copley: America's First Great Artist. New York, NY: David McKay Co, 1969.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 27, 48",
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"citation": "Novak, Barbara. American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1969.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 24-5; Reproduced: p. 24",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Glubok, Shirley, and Gerard Nook. The Art of Colonial America. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1970.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 25",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Mooz, Ralph Peter. \"The Art of Robert Feke.\" Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1970.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 177",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. Introduction to The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hannover: Knorr & Hirth, 1970.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 64; Reproduced: no. 29",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Neumeyer, Alfred. \"Nordamerikanische Kunst.\" Die Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts. ed. Harald Keller. Berlin: Propylaen Verlag, 1971.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 431, pl. 68",
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"citation": "Fales, Martha Gandy. Early American Silver. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1973.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 94, 239, 319",
"url": null
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"citation": "Adler, Mortimer Jerome, ed. The Revolutionary Years: Britannica's Book of the American Revolution. Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1976.",
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"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Wilmerding, John. American Art. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1976.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 38",
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},
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"citation": "Montgomery, Charles F., and Patricia E. Kane. American Art, 1750-1800: Towards Independence. Boston, MA: Published for Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, by the New York Graphic Society, 1976.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 132",
"url": null
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"citation": "\"American Image.\" Plain Dealer. Section 5 - 8. (January 18, 1976).",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: Section 5 - 8",
"url": null
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"citation": "Brown, Milton W. American Art to 1900: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1977.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 101-2; Reproduced: no. 164, p. 102",
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},
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"citation": "Johnson, Mark M. \"Portrait Painting - An Image of Man.\" Arts and Activities. 82 (September 1977).",
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"url": null
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n218"
},
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"url": null
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"citation": "Boros, Ethel. \"Early American Silver.\" Plain Dealer. (September 22, 1979).",
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"citation": "Emlen, Robert P. \"Wedding Silver for the Browns: A Rhode Island Family Patronizes a Boston Goldsmith.\" The American Art Journal. 56:2 (Spring 1984).",
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},
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"citation": "Buchanan, Penelope D. \"John Singleton Copley: Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd.\" Art Education. 40:1 (January 1987).",
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{
"citation": "Handbook of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
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"url": null
},
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H., ed. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
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},
{
"citation": "Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.",
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},
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"citation": "Kissick, John. Art, Context and Criticism. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark, 1993.",
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},
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"citation": "Cunningham, Lawrence S., and John J. Reich. Culture and Values: a Survey of the Western Humanities. Second edition. Fort Worth, IN: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1994.",
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"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Janson, H. W. History of Art. Fifth edition. New York, NY: Prentice Hall & Harry Abrams, 1995.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 42, pl. 26",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Barratt, Carrie Rebora. John Singleton Copley in America. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1995.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 209",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Kissick, John. Art, Context and Criticism. Second edition. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 382",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Kane, Patricia E., Francis Hill Bigelow, John Marshall Phillips, and Jeannine J. Falino. Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers: A Biographical Dictionary Based on the Notes of Francis Hill Bigelow & John Marshall Phillips. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1997.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 615",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Rather, Susan. \"Carpenter, Tailor, Shoemaker, Artist: Copley and Portrait Painting around 1770.\" The Art Bulletin. 79:2 (June 1997).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 284-5; Reproduced: p. 285",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Ohlig, Rudolf, and Hildegard Hogen. Der Glanz der Residenzen: Renaissance und Barock in Europa, Schwarzafrika und Altamerika. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1998.",
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"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Ward, Gerald W. R. \"Nathaniel Hurd.\" American National Biography, v. 2. ed. Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.",
"page_number": "Mentioned; p. 556-7",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Fortune, Brandon Brame, and Deborah Jean Warner. Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 1999.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 62, fig. 4-14",
"url": null
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{
"citation": "May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 44",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Kammen, Michael et al. Seeing America: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2006.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 22",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Cole, Mark, \"Two by Copley\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 08, October 2006",
"page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 7",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-08/page/6"
},
{
"citation": "Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.",
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"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 44",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Ward, Gerald W. R. Paul Revere: Sons of Liberty Bowl. Boston: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016.",
"page_number": "Mentioned p. 12; reproduced: p. 11",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Rather, Susan. The American School: Artists and Status in the Late-Colonial and Early National Era. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2016.",
"page_number": "Mentioned & Reproduced: pp. 41-42, fig. 30",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Ripley, Elizabeth. Copley; A Biography. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 24; Reproduced: p. 25",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Corey Phelon Geske, \u201cTheoria to practica and Congregational Independency: From John Singleton Copley's portraiture of \u2018Liberty,\u2019 Rev. Jonathan Mayhew identified, to Rev. Lemuel Haynes's Liberty Further Extended, c. 1776,\u201d Granville History Digital Collection, accessed July 18, 2023, Mentioned pp. 49-55; reproduced pp. 50-51. https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1531",
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},
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