. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 57.—Wooden surveying compass made by Andrew Newell (1749-1798) of Boston. It is made of mahogany, is 11/^ in. long, and has a diameter of 5 in. The engraved compass card is signed by Nathaniel Hurd, goldsmith, silversmith, and engraver of Boston. In collection of Yale University Art Gallery. He produced bellows of all types- smiths, braziers, and goldsmiths.^^° Andrew Newell -for furnaces, refiners, black- An instrument of considerable significance is another wooden surveyor's compass, in the collection of the Yale University Art Gall
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 57.—Wooden surveying compass made by Andrew Newell (1749-1798) of Boston. It is made of mahogany, is 11/^ in. long, and has a diameter of 5 in. The engraved compass card is signed by Nathaniel Hurd, goldsmith, silversmith, and engraver of Boston. In collection of Yale University Art Gallery. He produced bellows of all types- smiths, braziers, and goldsmiths.^^° Andrew Newell -for furnaces, refiners, black- An instrument of considerable significance is another wooden surveyor's compass, in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery. This compass (fig. 57) is made of rich brown San Do- mingo mahogany with sighting bars of boxwood. A mariner's card, set into the opening with a metal vernier scale, is in the usual form of the mariner's compass card of the 18th century; it is executed as a line engraving. A ship and the Boston harbor lighthouse are featured in the central medallion. On a riband encircling the medallion is the inscription "Made by andw. newell East End of the MARKET BOSTON," Engraved in script at the southern tip of the star is the signature "N. Hurd ; Relatively little is known about Andrew Newell (1749-1798) except that he was a maker of mathematical instruments. An entry in the first Boston directory, in 1789, listed "Andrew Newell, instrument maker, 61 State ; The directory of 1796 men- tioned Newell as having a shop on the "East side of the Market," the address that appears on the surveying compass. "° George Francis Dow, The Arts and Crafts in New England 1704-1775 (Topsfield, Mass.: The Wayside Press, 1927), p. 256. 106. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Int
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