__NOTOC__ Nathaniel Dearborn (1786 – November 7, 1852) was an American engraver.

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Biography

He was born in

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, in 1786, to inventor

Benjamin Dearborn Benjamin Dearborn (1754–1838) was an American printer and mechanical inventor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Boston, Massachusetts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His inventions include the gold standard balance, spring scale, ...

;Stauffer. American engravers upon copper and steel. NY: Grolier Club, 1907. siblings included John M. Dearborn and Fanny Dearborn Hanman. He later moved to

, learning engraving from

Abel Bowen __NOTOC__ Abel Bowen (1790-1850) was an engraver, publisher, and author in early 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Biography Bowen was born in New York in 1790. Arriving in Boston in 1812, he worked as a printer for the Columbian Museum, at t ...

. By 1814, Dearborn worked from quarters on School Street; later moving to Market Street (ca.1823), State Street (ca.1826–1831) and Washington Street (ca.1832–1852). Around 1830, he also gave musical lessons on the

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. He died November 7, 1852, in South Reading. His son, Nathaniel S. Dearborn, continued as an engraver and printer in Boston, working on Water Street (ca.1847–1851) and School Street (ca.1857–1868). N.S. Dearborn exhibited several printed specimens in the 1850 exhibition of the

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. His grandson S.B. Dearborn also worked as a printer.Illustrated Boston, the metropolis of New England
1889; p.219.

Works by Dearborn

* Views from the Mass. State House, Boston. ca.1838. * American Textbook for Letters. 1842.
Boston Notions
an Account of That Village from 1630 to 1847. 1848 * Dearborn'
Reminiscences of Boston, and Guide through the City and Environs
1851 * Dearborn'
Guide through Mount Auburn
1857

References

Images

Image:Boston byNathanielDearborn MFABoston.png, View of Boston, woodcut by Dearborn Image:Approbation5 Dearborn Son Boston.png, Printed by Dearborn & Son Image:1839 map Boston Deaborn 2674434011.jpg, 1839 map of Boston, printed by Dearborn & Son Image:1840 NationalGalaxy Deaborn.png, Published by N. Dearborn, 1840 Image:TriangularWarehouse MerchantsRow Boston DearbornReminiscences.png, Triangular Warehouse, Merchants Row. Reminiscences of Boston, 1851

External links

* WorldCat
Dearborn, Nathaniel 1786-1852
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dearborn, Nathaniel 1786 births 1852 deaths American engravers Artists from Boston 19th-century American artists