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Hurd, Nathaniel

Hurd, Nathaniel

(1729/30–77) engraver, silversmith; born in Boston, Mass. He worked in Boston as a silversmith and as a copperplate etcher of armorial bookplates and college seals. An early and skillful engraver, he had his portrait painted by John Singleton Copley (c. 1765).
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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