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The Illustrated Inventory of Paul Revere's works
at the American Antiquarian Society - Revere Elsewhere - and anywhereWhile AAS maintains an extensive collection of Paul Revere primary and supporting material, there still remain items listed in his Day Book which have not been located. Here we provide a list of these items as they appear in Brigham’s text and Revere's Day Book, in hopes that they may someday be brought to light. Mentions include engravings on copper for prints, maps, advertising cards, bookplates, and other printed items. If you see an item missing, or would like to see something included, please contact the Graphic Arts Department.
Table of items where existence is unknown:
Date of account(s): Recipient: Item: March 25, 1762
Fowle and Draper, printer
Leaden plate/illustration 1
June 14, 176238.111.225.15
Nathaniel Fosdike
Hat label/bill
June 14, 1762
Increase Blake
Copper plate/prints
August 18, 1762
William Hichborn
Hat label/bill
August 28, 1764
Nathaniel Baker
Hat label/bill
January 15, 1765
Captain William Ellery Jr.
Bookplate
January 20, 1765
Shubal Hews
Lead Plate; advertisement
May 7, 1765
Matthew Lindsey
Copper plate/prints
November 14, 1766 Captain Caleb Hopkins Masons Lodge notification February 1, 1768
Edes and Gill, printer
Twenty-nine cuts
February 1, 1768
Mein and Fleming, printer
Lead Plates
January 3, 1771
Samuel Hewes
Copper plate and prints for spermaceti cans [candles]
April 3, 1771 Edes and Gill, printer Types for newspaper January 1, 1773;
September 2, 1773;
February 6, 1774William Boardman
Hat label/bill
February 11, 1773 Edes and Gill, printer Plate for indenture May 10, 1773;
October 25, 1773;
June 7, 1774
March 20, 1775Ezra Collins
Hat label/bill
October 10, 1783;
1787-1797William Boardman & Sons
Hat label/bill
August 10, 1784
Abraham Adams
Hat label/bill
March 13, 1786
Benjamin Warren Plimouth (Plymouth)
Compass cards
April 16, 1792;
June 24, 1792-January 28, 1797William Williams
Hat label/bill
April 16, 1792
Saron Belcher
Hat label/bill
November 15, 1792;
December 9, 1792;
January 24, 1793Charles Smith
Hat label/bill
December 9, 1794
Samuel Barry
Hat label/bill
Table of items where existence is known:
Item
Location
Link
Jonathan Mayhew portrait
New York Public Library
Florida Map for Bernard Roman’s Concise History
Library of Congress; Florida Historical Society; Clements Library
Broadside Account of Boston Massacre
New York Historical Society
Masonic certificate for [Samuel White], Marblehead Lodge
Private collection
No link available
Rescinders Broadside
Sheffield City Library, Sheffield, UK
No link available
John Piemont Billhead [entry from June 7, 1774]
Found in the Town of Danvers Accounts; stored and part of the collections of the Danvers Archival Center
To PDF (reproduction and article; special thank you to Richard Trask)
[Two detais above from "View of the Colleges in Cambridge" Box 2 Folder 4]
1. Brigham found one item published by Fowle & Draper in 1762, James Hervey’s Treatise on the Religious Education of Daughters which he says “looks like Revere’s” but had been used in a 1760 pamphlet and so could not have been Revere’s handiwork. Since Brigham’s text, a 1762 imprint by Fowle & Draper has been found An Account of the remarkable conversion of a little boy and girl which contains an illustration, which may or may not be by Revere. There is also A New Gift for Children 4th ed with a portrait of King George III published by Fowle and Draper which looks similar in style to Revere’s portraits (in particular his Dickinson portrait). The only known copy is at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. A variation of this appeared in Isaiah Thomas’s 1772 Almanac (with the woodcut of the Boston Massacre scene).
Know of a item/institutuion you would like to see listed? Email the Graphic Arts Department at reproductions[at]mwa.org.
This site last updated: March 2011
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