Price: $15,000.00
SKU: 102233
ARTIST: Peter Pelham
PUBLISHER: Sold by J. Buck at ye Spectacles
MEDIUM: Mezzotint,
DATE: c. 1751.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 13 5/16 x 9 1/2" (34 x 24.2 cm.
DESCRIPTION: Rev. John Moorhead (1703-1773). He was born in Newton, near Belfast, County Down, Ireland (Ulster), and educated in Edinburgh, before arriving in Massachusetts. All accounts indicate that he was a very pious minister, who engaged in family visitation, catechism, and a faithful ministry of the Word. He was well regarded by his flock. The congregation began as a group of Scot-Irish Calvinists and held worship in a converted barn on Long Lane in Boston on November 15, 1729, with the first Pastor being the Reverend John Moorhead. The inhospitable residents of Boston dubbed them derogatorily as "The Church of the Presbyterian Strangers”, and the name stuck.<br><br> Peter Pelham was born in London c.1697. In 1713 he apprenticed to John Simon, a leading engraver of mezzotints. Afterwards he found employment with various printsellers producing mezzotints. While in London he is known for producing at least twenty-six portraits. In 1726 or 1727 he emigrated to America with his wife and two sons. He settled in Boston and established a school where he taught writing, reading, dancing, painting, and needlework. He also practiced his work as an engraver of mezzotints. His first mezzotint, made in 1728, was of the prominent Puritan minister, Cotton Mather. He produced a total of sixteen engraved works including a map, “Plan of Louisbourg.” He is one of the earliest resident artists working in America and is believed to have produced the first mezzotint in the colonies. Pelham was stepfather to the artist, John Singleton Copley, through his third marriage to Mary Singleton. His son, Henry Pelham, is known to have produced a large map of Revolutionary era Boston. His prints are seldom seen and are considered to be of great rarity.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Good condition save for losses along sheet edges. Professionally conserved. A very nice impression.
REFERENCE: Oliver, A. "Peter Pelham, Sometime Printmaker of Boston" #125 Stauffer #2470. Unrecorded variant.
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