Abel Bowen
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.[1] Arriving in Boston in 1812, Bowen worked as a printer for the Columbian Museum, at the time under the proprietorship of Abel's uncle, Daniel Bowen.[2] In 1814 Bowen married Eliza Healey of Hudson, New York.[3] Their children included Abel Bowen (d.1818).[4]
With W.S. Pendleton he formed the firm of Pendleton & Bowen, which ended in 1826.[5] He joined the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in 1828.[6] In the 1830s Bowen and others formed the Boston Bewick Company, which published the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. He lived and worked in Congress Square, ca.1823-1826;[7]in 1832 he kept his shop on Water Street, and lived on Union Street;[8] in 1849 he worked on School Street, and lived in Chelsea.[9]
Bowen taught Joseph Andrews, Hammatt Billings, George Loring Brown, B.F. Childs, William Croome, Nathaniel Dearborn, G. Thomas Devereaux, Alonzo Hartwell, Samuel Smith Kilburn, and Richard P. Mallory.[10][11] Contemporaries included William Hoogland.[12] His siblings included publisher Henry Bowen.
Works by Bowen
- The Naval Monument: containing official and other accounts of all the battles fought between the navies of the United States and Great Britain during the late war; and an account of the War with Algiers; to which is annexed a naval register of the United States. 1816.
- Rufus Porter. Revolving Almanack. Engraved by Abel Bowen. Billerica, Mass., ca. 1822.
- Bowen's Boston news-letter, and city record. 1826.
- Early Impressions A novella published 1827, Bowles and Dearborn: Boston, and reprinted by Allen and Ticknor, Boston, 1833.
- Bowen's picture of Boston, or The citizen's and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs. Boston: A. Bowen, 1829. 3rd edition, 1838.
- Young Ladies' Book. 1830.
Images
References
- ^ Walter Hamilton. Dated book-plates (Ex libris) with a treatise on their origin and development. 1895.
- ^ Loyd Haberly. The Long Life of Daniel Bowen. The New England Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Sep., 1959), pp. 320-332.
- ^ Boston Gazette, July 21, 1814.
- ^ Columbian Centinel, Sept. 30, 1818.
- ^ Boston News-Letter. Feb. 4, 1826.
- ^ Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. 1853.
- ^ Boston Directory. 1823.
- ^ Boston Directory. 1832
- ^ Boston Directory. 1849
- ^ Frank Weitenkampf. American graphic art. H. Holt and Company, 1912.
- ^ Potter's American Monthly. 1873.
- ^ Miniature portraits of the Marquis Lafayette. Boston Commercial Gazette, Aug. 23, 1824.
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