Thomas Prince, A. M., 1750

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint in black on laid paper mounted to gray laid paper

Dimensions

image: 30.48 × 24.45 cm (12 × 9 5/8 in.)
plate: 35.24 × 24.77 cm (13 7/8 × 9 3/4 in.)

sheet: 41.28 × 28.42 cm (16 1/4 × 11 3/16 in.)
support: 45.09 × 34.61 cm (17 3/4 × 13 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.19.596

Artists / Makers

Peter Pelham (artist) American, born England, 1697 - 1751

John Greenwood (artist after) American, 1727 - 1792

James Buck (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

text at bottom in plate:
Jno. Greenwood Pinx. / P. Pelham fecit. / THOMAS PRINCE A.M. / Quintus Ecclesiae Australis Bostonii Novanglorum Pastor, e Collegii Harvardini / CANTABRIGIAE Curatoribus, SAMUELIS Armigeri Filius et Thomae AM. denati Pater / Printed for & Sold by J. Buck at ye Spectacles in Queen-Street Boston. 1750

lower right corner of support in graphite by unknown hand: CDC / + 225-; center verso of support in graphite by unknown hand: 1 [circled]

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Old Print Shop

Exhibition History

1981: Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981