Pitcher

Inscriptions

Marked on bottom: REVERE [in clipped-corner rectangle]; engraved beneath spout: BRAY / 1804

Label

This style of pitcher was modeled after the transfer-printed Staffordshire creamware jugs imported from England and popular in America after 1800. This silver pitcher’s simple outlines exemplify the Roman and Greek ideals of symmetry and simplicity that formed the basis of the Neoclassical style. Neoclassicism enjoyed widespread popularity in the young democracy, which looked to ancient Greece and Rome for political—as well as artistic—inspiration.

Patriot Paul Revere was the most prolific silversmith of his era, renowned for his skill as an engraver as well as for his silversmithing. Less well known are his business activities in selling hardware and picture framing or his experiments with rolling and milling copper and casting bells at his foundry on Lynn Street in Boston.

From the 2019 exhibition American Art, Colonial to Modern, curated by Barbara J. MacAdam, Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art

Exhibition History

American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.

American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 12, 2021.

American Decorative Art at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 10-March 1, 1981, no. 34.

American Silver, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 27-November 3, 1974.

Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, May 25, 1954-until recalled for purchase in Boston.

Exhibition of Colonial Silver, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, Massachusetts, October 27-November 6, 1960.

Exhibition of the Concord Antiquarian Society Observing the 175th Anniversary of Concord, Massachusetts, June 1-September 15, 1950.

Fog Art Museums Students' Exhibition, Boston, Massachusetts, May 9-June 5, 1952.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 16-June 2, 1978.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 30-June 21, 1979.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 28, 1981-June 7, 1982.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 14-August 15, 1976.

In Quest of Excellence, Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, January 12-April 22, 1984

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 22, 1991-June 22, 1997.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-present.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-May 8, 2007.

New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-August 20, 1989, no. 68.

Some Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection, and others, Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1967.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1989, no. 68.

Jacquelynn Baas and Charles Willard Moore, Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1985, p.107, no. 90.

Jacquelynn Baas, From "a few curious Elephants Bones" to Picasso, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, September 1985, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, 1985, pp. 37-43, ill. p. 40

Jan van der Marck, In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride Patronage, Connoisseurship, Miami, Florida: Trustees for the Center of Fine Arts Association, 1984, no. 73.

Margaret J. Moody, American Decorative Arts at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1981, no. 34.

Kathryn C. Buhler, Massachusetts Silver in the Frank L. and Louise C. Harrington Collection, Worcester, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1965, p. 105-107, ill. p. 106.

Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Volume XXIV, no. 142, April 1926, p. 26, no. 234.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewlers, Hanover: University Press of New England, p. 795-819, 1998.

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 194, no. 164.

Provenance

Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Wocester, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1966.

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