Samuel Hill (c. 1765 – c. 1809) was an engraver who worked in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His engravings were published in the Massachusetts Magazine;Frank Luther Mott. A history of American magazines, 1741–1850. Harvard University Press, 1930. Defoe's New Robinson Crusoe (1790); Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy (1794); American Universal Geography (1796); Cook's Three Voyages to the Pacific Ocean (1797). Hill's subjects extended from maps to literary illustrations to landscapes;Worcester Art Museum portrait subjects included James Bowdoin,Massachusetts Magazine, v. 3 (1791); p.5. Rev. John Murray of Newburyport, Massachusetts,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Elizabeth White (d. 1798).American Antiquarian Society Examples of Hill's work can be found in the American Antiquarian Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Scholars continue debating the precise dates of Hill's birth and death. Suggested candidates for Hill's lifespan: born July 27, 1750, "probably the son of Alexander and Thankful Hill";William Dunlap, et al. ;;A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States;;. C.E. Goodspeed & Co., 1918; p.108. 1765–1809;Samuel Hill (1765–1809). Through American eyes. Huntington, W. Va. : Huntington Museum of Art, 2003. and 1766?–1804.
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External links Library of Congress. North View of Castle William Flickr. 1796 North Western Territory map Massachusetts Historical Society. Map of Massachusetts Proper, 1802