Plate

Job & John Jackson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This pink and white transfer-printed earthenware plate features a view of the Hancock family mansion, a famous colonial structure on Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The two-storey granite-facaded structure was erected by Boston merchant Thomas Hancock (1703–1764) in 1737, the year his nephew and later occupant of the mansion, John Hancock (1737–1793), was born. During the American Revolutionary War the mansion was used as military headquarters during the Charlestown engagement of 1775 and for sheltering wounded soldiers during the Battle of Bunker Hill.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art