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Thomas Prince, A. M.

May 1750
Not on view
The subject of this print attended Harvard, then visited Barbados and England before becoming the minister of Boston’s Old South Church in 1718. An avid book collector and antiquarian, Prince favored religious toleration. The engraver, Pelham, moved to Boston from London about 1725–26, and based this mezzotint on a portrait by Greenwood now at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Thomas Prince, A. M.
  • Artist: Peter Pelham (American (born England), London 1697–1751 Boston, Massachusetts)
  • Artist: After John Greenwood (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1727–1792 Margate England)
  • Publisher: Printed for J. Buck (Boston, Massachusetts)
  • Sitter: Portrait of Thomas Prince (American, Sandwich, Massachusetts 1687–1758 Boston, Massachusetts)
  • Date: May 1750
  • Medium: Mezzotint
  • Dimensions: plate: 13 15/16 x 9 13/16 in. (35.4 x 24.9 cm)
    sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 1/16 in. (35.8 x 25.6 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.90.22
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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