John Henry Bufford
{{short description|American lithographer}}
File:John Henry Bufford, ca. 1860.jpg
John Henry Bufford (1810–1870) was a lithographer in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.
Biography
Bufford trained "in the Pendleton shop in Boston from 1829 to 1831."{{cite book |author=Baumgardner |first=G.B. |title=Prints and printmakers of New York State, 1825-1940 |year=1986 |chapter=George and William Endicott: commercial lithography in New York, 1831-51}}
In 1835 he moved to New York, where he "worked independently for five years while accepting commissions from George Endicott and Nathaniel Currier." Bufford returned to Boston in 1839, and became "chief artist" in the print shop owned by Benjamin W. Thayer (who had bought the Pendleton outfit)."{{cite journal |author=Tatham |first=David |author-link=David Tatham |date=Fall 1971 |title=The Pendleton-Moore Shop: Lithographic Artists in Boston, 1825-1840 |journal=Old-Time New England |volume=62}}
By 1844, the shop's name changed to J.H. Bufford & Co. (1844–1851)." By one assessment, "Bufford's firm produced lively, accomplished images in many forms, including sheet music, city views, marine views and landscapes, book illustrations, reproductions of paintings, commercial depictions of factories, and contemporary genre views; ... [and] lithographic portraits copied from daguerreotypes."{{cite web |url=http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/art/farart.htm |title=National Portrait Gallery |location=USA}} Artists who worked for Bufford included Francis D'Avignon, Winslow Homer, and Leopold Grozelier. Clients included music publisher William H. Oakes.
In the 1840s-1860s Bufford lived in Roxbury and worked on Washington Street:
- J.H. Bufford & Co. (1844–1851), 204-206 Washington St.Boston Directory. 1848
- J.H. Bufford (1851–c. 1852), 260 Washington St.Boston Directory. 1852.
- Bufford's Lithographic & Publishing House, also known as Bufford's Print Publishing House, 313 Washington St. (c. 1857–1864)Boston Directory. 1857, 1858, 1862.
- John H. Bufford (c. 1869), 490 Washington St.Boston Commercial Directory. 1869.
After Bufford's death in 1870, his sons Frank G. Bufford and John Henry Bufford, Jr. continued the business.Boston Directory. 1873. By 1879, "J.H. Bufford's Sons, Manufacturing Publishers of Novelties in Fine Arts" worked from offices at 141-147 Franklin Street, Boston; and in 1881–1882 expanded the enterprise as far as New York and Chicago.{{cite journal |journal=Publishers Weekly |date= March 25, 1882}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal|author=David Tatham|title=Henry Bufford American lithographer|journal=Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society|volume=86|issue=1|date=April 1976|pages=47–73|url=http://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44517581.pdf}}
Images
Image:Arms of the United States of America.jpg|Lithograph issued from Bufford's Print Publishing House, Boston, 1864
Image:1852 Mastodon Warren Nutting Bufford Smithsonian SIL7-235-11.jpg|Mastodon, 1852
Image:1859 JamaicaPond byBufford NMAH2003-19706.jpg|Jamaica Pond, 1859
Image:Boston New Masonic Temple 1865.jpg|Masonic Temple, Boston, 1865 (designed by M.G. Wheelock)
Image:Oscar_Wilde_(Boston_Public_Library).jpg|Sheet music (Oscar Wilde)
Image:1859 Bufford Boston NMAH2003-25221.jpg|"John H. Bufford. Practical Lithographer. Washington St., Boston"
Image:Bufford, John H. - Boston Public Library - Napoleon (by).jpg|Sheet music (Napoleon)
Image:Lunsford Lane.jpg|Lunsford Lane, c. 1863
Image:Trapper Deas Bufford UCBerkeley.png|Western life: the trapper, 19th century
Image:I.Stevens.jpg|Brigadier General Isaac Ingalls Stevens, 1861 (Washington State Historical Society)
External links
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- James Otto Lewis. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WYATAAAAYAAJ The North American aboriginal port-folio]. NY: George Adlard, 1839. Illus. by Bufford.
- [https://archive.org/details/historyoftemplen00bloo The history of Temple, N. H.] By Henry Ames Blood. 1860. "The lithographs of estates...(with the exception of one) were done by John H. Bufford, (Lithographer, 313 Washington street, Boston,) from sketches by himself."
- [http://maps.bpl.org Boston Public Library], Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, owns several maps printed by Bufford.
- University of Pennsylvania. Keffer Collection of Sheet Music. [http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/buff.html Material related to Bufford].
- New York Public Library. [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=Bufford%2C%20John%20Henry&s=3¬word=&f=4 Items related to Bufford].
- [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pgahtml/pgaauthindex1.html Library of Congress]. Prints & Photographs Division owns materiala related to Bufford.
- [http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/ Boston Athenaeum] owns numerous works by J.H. Bufford & Co. See library's catalog.
- American Antiquarian Society. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081121074132/http://americanantiquarian.org/acquisitions062708.htm Recent Acquisition]: Patriotic Genre Print. Bufford, John H., 1810–1870. The Volunteer. '76 and '63. Boston: Bufford's Print Publishing House, 1863.
- [https://archive.org/stream/merrimackriverdi187273gree#page/184/mode/2up Advertisement], 1873
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Category:19th-century American people