Samuel Hill
Samuel Hill (c. 1765 – c. 1809) was an engraver who worked in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Samuel Hill
Osgood Carleton · "Map of Massachusetts", Osgood Carleton, engraved by Joseph Callendar and Samuel Hill, published 1801. This scan is from the David Rumsey Map Collection, and has been cropped to remove extraneous terr · Public domain
- Born
- 1765 · Massachusetts.
- Died
- 1809
- Occupation
- painter · engraver
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Samuel Hill (c. 1765 – c. 1809) was an engraver who worked in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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His engravings were published in the Massachusetts Magazine; Defoe's New Robinson Crusoe (1790); Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy (1794); American Universal Geography (1796); Cook's Three Voyages to the Pacific Ocean (1797). Hill's subjects extended from maps to literary illustrations to landscapes; portrait subjects included James Bowdoin, Rev. John Murray of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Elizabeth White (d. Examples of Hill's work can be found in the American Antiquarian Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Scholars continue debating the precise dates of Hill's birth and death. Suggested candidates for Hill's lifespan: born July 27, 1750, "probably the son of Alexander and Thankful Hill"; 1765–1809; and 1766?–1804.
Samuel Hill (1765–1809) was a painter and engraver.
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Samuel Hill · https: Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass.: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, vol. II, no.
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1765
Samuel Hill born at Massachusetts.
1809
Samuel Hill died.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 211327-2, Samuel Hill and Co. (London).
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q7411694: Samuel Hill
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Frank Luther Mott. A history of American magazines, 1741–1850. Harvard University Press, 1930.
- 2.Worcester Art Museum
- 3.Massachusetts Magazine, v. 3 (1791); p.5.
- 4.Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- 5.American Antiquarian Society
- 6.William Dunlap, et al. ;;A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States;;. C.E. Goodspeed & Co., 1918; p.108.
- 7.Samuel Hill (1765–1809). Through American eyes. Huntington, W. Va. : Huntington Museum of Art, 2003.
- 8.Hill, Samuel 1766?-1804. World Cat.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Huntington Museum of Art. Through American eyes. 2003.
- Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American painters, sculptors & engravers.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 211327-2, Samuel Hill and Co. (London).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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