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  Images
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Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Image #1

John Singleton Copley
American, 1737-1815
Nathaniel Hurd, ca. 1765
Oil on canvas, 29 3/8 x 24 5/8"

Memorial Art Gallery
Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 44.2

Image #2

John Singleton Copley
American, 1737-1815
Nathaniel Hurd, ca. 1765
Oil on canvas,
30 3/8 x 25 3/8"

Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Image #3

John Singleton Copley
American, 1737-1815
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin (Sarah Morris), 1773
Oil on ticking, 60 ½ x 48"

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Image #4

Kees van Dongen
Dutch, 1877-1968
Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1903
Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 27 ¾"

Memorial Art Gallery
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Irving S. Norry, 66.27

Image #5

Ralph Earl
American, 1751-1801
Mary Smith Booth, 1790
Oil on canvas, 38 x 31"

Memorial Art Gallery
Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 57.13

Image #6

Jefferson Gauntt
American
Josephine Dixon

Memorial Art Gallery
Gift of Mrs. George Barlow Penny, 42.45

Image #7

Jacob Jordaens
Flemish, ca. 1640
Portrait of Elizabeth Jordaens

Memorial Art Gallery
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Fred W. Gelb, 74.102

Image #8

M.M. Manchester
American, active ca. 1840s
Judge and Mrs. Arthur Yates, 1840
Oil on canvas, 36 x 58 ¾"

Memorial Art Gallery
Gallery Purchase, 41.30

Image #9

Ammi Phillips
American, 1788-1865
Old Woman with a Bible, ca. 1834
Oil on linen, 33 ½ x 28"

Memorial Art Gallery
Beatrice M. Padelford Trust, 84.22

Midnight Ride of Paul Revere from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image #10

Paul Revere
American
Engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770

American Antiquarian Society

Image #11

John Singleton Copley
American, 1737-1815
Paul Revere, 1768
Oil on canvas, 35 x 28 ½"

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Image #12

Grant Wood
American, 1891-1942
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931 Oil on composition board, 30 x 40"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur H. Hearn Fund, 1950. (50.117)

Image 13:

Possibly Henry Dawkins.
American
Certificate of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, 1753 (detail)
Engraving

I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
The New York Public Library,
Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Image #14

J. Fenno
American
Fire Bucket, 1799
Leather

Courtesy of the Bostonian Society/Old State House

Exterior photo of Paul Revere's home in Boston, MA

Courtesy of the Paul Revere Memorial Association

   

Image #16

Paul Revere after Christian Remick
Landing of the Troops in Boston Harbor, 1770
Engraving

Boston Athenæum

Image #17

Interior photo of the kitchen in Paul Revere House

Courtesy of the Paul Revere Memorial Association

Image #18

John Neagle
American
Pat Lyon at the Forge, 1826-1827
Oil on canvas

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

   
   

Image 19:

Jacob Hurd
American, d. 1758
Teapot, ca. 1740
Silver with wood handle
97.6.3

Historic Deerfield Inc., Deerfield, Massachusetts
Gift of Janette F. Weber in memory of her husband, Frederick C. Weber, Jr., M.D.

Image 20:

Nathaniel Hurd
American, 1729/30-1777
Cann
Silver
54.457

Historic Deerfield Inc., Deerfield, Massachusetts

Image 21:

Nathaniel Hurd
American, 1729/30-1777

Teapot
Silver
60.1045

Courtesy, Winterthur Museum

   
   

Image #22

Nathaniel Hurd
American, 1729/30-1777
Cream Pail
Silver

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts Museum Purchase, 1936.51

Image #23:

Nathaniel Hurd
American, 1729/30-1777
Table of Conversions
Engraving

American Antiquarian Society

Image #24

Thomas Gainsborough
British, 1727-1788
Man with Book Seated in a Landscape, ca. 1753
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20"

Memorial Art Gallery
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Fred W. Geib, 75.115

   
   

Image #25 :

Sir Joshua Reynolds
English, 1723-1792
Portrait of Miss Hoare, 1782
Oil on canvas, 36 3/16 x 28"

Memorial Art Gallery
George Eastman Collection of the University of Rochester, 77.1

Image #26:

W. Champney; Bufford, lithographer, 1856.
Boston Massacre, March 5th 1770

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