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Joseph Sewall, D.D.

(American, 1729 or 1730–1777)
1768
Medium/TechniqueEngraving (posthumous impression or reproduction)
DimensionsImage: 18.7 × 11.1 cm (7 3/8 × 4 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Samuel Abbott Green
Accession numberM20138
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn plate, on upper border of plinth: Ob. 27 June 1769. AEtat. 81 In plate, on plinth: Joseph Sewall, D.D. / Pastor of the Old South Church BOSTON. In plate, on banderole, on plinth: Vita bene acta efficit senectutem jucundam In plate, below image: Engrav'd & Sold by Nat Hurd BOSTON 1768
ProvenancePDP Register entry: Date acquired, 10/3/1904
Nathaniel Hurd
about 1764
Bookplate of Thomas Palmer
Nathaniel Hurd
1750–60
Bookplate of Boudinot
Nathaniel Hurd
Skewer
Nathaniel Hurd
About 1755–75
Teapot
Nathaniel Hurd
1755–60
Nathaniel Hurd
about 1751–77
Box with scales and weights
Nathaniel Hurd
1760–70
Guitarist Among a Background of Demons
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched 1824–28; printed by 1890