• His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esqr

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Faber, John, 1695?-1756
Contributor:
  • Phillips, Richard, 1681-1741
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 36.1 x 25.9 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Portraits
Description:
  • Medium: Mezzotints
  • Inscribed in plate, below: "His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esqr.; // Captain General & Governor in Chief of His Majesty's Provinces of Massachusets Bay & New Hampshire in New England and Vice Admiral of the Same".
  • Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Frederic R. Halsey, sold at Anderson Galleries in New York, given to Princeton University ca. 1916 by Samuel S. Dennis and Charles W. McAlpin, class of 1888.
  • Item description: Portrait of Belcher while he was Royal Governor of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, prior to becoming Governor of New Jersey.
Publisher:
  • [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1734.
Subject:
  • Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757—Portraits
  • Governors—New Jersey—18th century—Portraits
  • Princeton University—Founders—Portraits
  • Portraits, British—18th century
  • Portraits
Date:
  • 1734
References:
  • Princeton University Library Chronicle (Summer 1953), p. 172.
  • Princeton Alumni Weekly, vol. XVII, no. 10, December 16, 1916.
Range label:
  • Logical
Artist:
  • Faber, John, 1695?-1756
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Samuel S. Dennis and Charles W. McAlpin, Princeton University Class of 1888.
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/xs55mn601
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