Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers: A Biographical Dictionary Based on the Notes of Francis Hill Bigelow and John Marshall Phillips - Hardcover

Kane, Tina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0894670778 ISBN 13: 9780894670770

Publisher: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998

Synopsis

This massive biographical dictionary offers the most thorough study of a group of early American craftsmen published to date. It contains biographies of 296 silversmiths and jewelers who worked in Massachusetts prior to the American Revolution, records of more than 6000 examples of their work, and illustrations of 424 of their marks. It completes and amplifies research undertaken at Yale since the 1930s when John Marshall Phillips (1905 - 53), the leading scholar of American silver of his generation, acquired the research notes of Francis Hill Bigelow (1859 - 1933), a pioneer in the field.
There are brief biographical notes on 93 craftsmen in allied trades, including watchmakers, clockmakers, and engravers, and a section on individuals previously misidentified as Massachusetts silversmiths, as well as essays on silversmiths and their tools, Boston silversmithing and jewelrymaking trades, and other Massachusetts silversmiths. A glossary of terms relating to tools and craft techniques and 193 additional illustrations complete the book.

About this title

From the Publisher:

8 x 11 trim. 617 illus. LC 97-29813

About the Author:

PATRICIA E. KANE is Curator of American Decorative Arts at Yale University Art Gallery, author of numerous articles and reviews on the decorative arts, and author, editor, or contributor to ten books and exhibition catalogs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Art Gallery
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0894670778
• ISBN 13: 9780894670770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1265