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Abel Bowen was born on December 3, 1790, in Sand Lake Village, Greenbush, New York, and was one of twelve children of Abel Bowen and Delia Mason.
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Abel Bowen was born on December 3, 1790, in Sand Lake Village, Greenbush, New York, and was one of twelve children of Abel Bowen and Delia Mason.
In 1811 Abel Bowen moved to Boston and soon established himself as a printer. He then began a varied activity, characteristic of a period when Americans apparently regarded themselves as capable jacks-of-all-trades. A wood engraver, he turned also to copper engraving. Stauffer lists portraits and views by him, some from his own drawings, somewhat dry and colorless.
In 1821 he was associated with Alexander McKenzie, copperplate printer. He drew on stone the illustrations for an American edition of Sir Astley Paston Cooper's lectures.
Of his work on wood, his copies of English cuts for an American edition of The Young Ladies' Book (1830) were "very remarkable for their fidelity to the original, " writes W. J. Linton. The combination "engraver, publisher" describes his activity. Described by W. H. Whitmore as "one in the chain of local antiquaries, " Bowen early began to publish or plan volumes illustrated with copperplates or wood engravings or both, many of them by himself. There were the Naval Monument (1816), Caleb H. Snow's History of Boston (1825), in which Abel's brother Henry appears as printer, and Picture of Boston (1828).
In 1834 appeared the first number of the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, in Boston, published by John L. Sibley and James B. Dow, and copyrighted by the Boston Bewick Company. This company was a group of wood engravers (Bowen, Alonzo Hartwell, John H. Hall, Wm. Croome, John C. Crosman, and others), associated "for the purpose of employing, improving, and extending the art of engraving. . " The Introduction to the magazine promises that "the engravings will be of the first order, " and in volume one there is an article on Thomas Bewick, "our patron saint. "
At the end of the second volume the editor, in an adieu to his duties, states that the embellishments were selected chiefly by the engravers, and suggests that "the interests of the work might have been promoted by allowing the editor the privilege of a veto, at least. " One is inclined to agree with him. The third volume was issued in 1837 without the name of the Bewick Company.
As to his influence, Linton names Croome, Devereux, Mallory, Kilburn, Childs, George Loring Brown, and Hammatt Billings among his pupils, for which list no confirmation has been found.
Of Bowen's private life little has been recorded. We are told that he was married to Eliza Healy, had ten children, and struggled on, year after year, in the face of reverses, poverty, and long continued illness, and that he died after two years of illness, patiently borne.
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Bowen became a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in 1828.
Quotes from others about the person
"Of his work on wood, his copies of English cuts for an American edition of The Young Ladies' Book were 'very remarkable for their fidelity to the original, '" writes W. J. Linton.
Whitmore quotes "one of the artists of the last generation" thus: "Bowen was the real founder of the art of wood engraving here, not so much by his own productions as by the stimulus he gave to the subject. "
Of Bowen's private life little has been recorded. It was told that Bowen was married to Eliza Healy, had ten children. Their children included Abel Bowen (d. 1818).
copperplate printer
1790–1860
19 February 1805 – 17 January 1873
1786–1852
1831—1903
February 2, 1814 – June 25, 1889
1818–1874
d.1818
