Nathaniel Hurd

Nathaniel Hurd (c. 1729 – 1777) was an engraver and silversmith in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century.[1] He engraved "bookplates ... heraldic devices, seals, ... paper currency, and business cards."[2][3]

Silver teapot made by Nathaniel Hurd in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Nathaniel Hurd
Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd by John Singleton Copley, ca.1765 (Cleveland Museum of Art)
Bornc. 1729
Died1777
Occupationengraver and silversmith

The lion rampant logo for the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy is taken from a bookplate Hurd designed for John Phillips in 1775.[4] Examples of Hurd's work are in the collections of Harvard University; Yale University; Historic Deerfield;[5] the Lexington Historical Society; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

This elevation of the Old State House was drawn by Thomas Dawes and engraved by Nathaniel Hurd. This view shows the building's appearance after having been rebuilt after a fire gutted it in 1747.[6]

Nathaniel Hurd was the son of Jacob Hurd, who was also a noted Boston silversmith, whose works are in the collections of the Peabody Essex Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Strawbery Banke Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

References
  1. Charles Dexter Allen (1895), American book-plates, a guide to their study, London: George Bell & Sons, OCLC 1472039, OL 7058457M
  2. "Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd by Copley." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Mar., 1923)
  3. American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
  4. "The Exeter Lion Rampant". The Academy Archives. Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  5. "Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium".
  6. Cummings, Abbott Lowell. "A Recently Discovered Engraving of the Old State House in Boston," Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2017. (https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/774) Retrieved August 2018.

Further reading
  • William Dunlap (1834), History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States, New York: George P. Scott and Co., Printers, OCLC 812030, OL 6575532M
  • Hollis French. Jacob Hurd and his sons Nathaniel & Benjamin, silversmiths, 1702–1781. Walpole Society, 1939.
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