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Britannia Depicta
''Britannia Depicta'' was an illustrated road atlas for Britain. It was printed in numerous editions over many decades from 1720 into the 19th century and updated with engravings by many artisans who worked from drawings of other artists. It featured strip maps. The atlas was based on the earlier work of John Ogilby who published the first British road atlas in 1675. ''Britannia Depicta'' was printed in 1720 by Emanuel Bowen and John Owen's firm Bowen & Owen. It was one of Bowen's earliest works. A road atlas, it contains two hundred and seventy three road maps along with drawings of landmarks and miniature county maps of each of the counties of England and Wales. It followed on John Ogilby's original with updated style of historical and heraldic detail. It was an unusual feature of the atlas that the maps were engraved on both sides of each page, and this resulted in a handier-sized book. Cadell & Davies editions Cadell & Davies published its own editions of the ''Britann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowen - Britannica Depicta (Cardigan)
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William Byrne (engraver)
William Byrne (1743–1805) was a British engraver. Life Byrne was born in London in 1743. After studying some time under his uncle, an artist little known, he went to Paris, where he became a pupil of Aliamet, and afterwards of Wille. As well as making individual plates, he worked with Thomas Hearne on the ''Antiquities of Great Britain'', which they jointly published in 1786. He died in London in 1805 and was buried in Old St. Pancras churchyard. He was the father of Mary, Anne Frances, Letitia, Elizabeth and John Byrne, all artists. Their mother's name is unknown and William married again to Marianne Francotte in 1792. Landscape engraver John Landseer was his pupil. Works His works are considerable; the following are the most deserving of notice: *''Villa Madama'': after R. Wilson (Society of Arts medal, 1765). *''Antiquities of Britain, VOL.1''; from drawings by Thomas Hearne (1786). *''Antiquities of Britain, VOL.2''; from drawings by Thomas Hearne (1807). *''Vie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hearne (artist)
Thomas Hearne (22 September 1744 – 13 April 1817) was an English landscape painter, engraver and illustrator. Hearne's watercolours were typified by applying a wash of subtle subdued colours over a clear outline in fine brush, pen or pencil. His techniques were studied by younger artists such as Thomas Girtin and J. M. W. Turner. Early life Thomas Hearne was born at Marshfield, Gloucestershire. When he was five years old, his father, William, died and Thomas moved with his mother, Prudence, to Brinkworth, Wiltshire. One of his biographers, Simon Fenwick, suggests that the nearby Malmesbury Abbey proved an inspiration to Hearne's later interest in Gothic architecture. As a teenager he was apprenticed to his uncle who worked as a pastry cook in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. Next door was a print shop; Miller, the engraver, no doubt facilitated his move to the profession of artist. In its early years, the Royal Society of Arts offered prizes—which it called "premiums"— ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Byrne (artist, Died 1847)
John Byrne (1786–1847) was an English painter and engraver. He came from a family of artists and he lived with his sister Elizabeth Byrne who also exhibited her landscapes. Life He was the only son of engraver William Byrne and followed his father's profession in the arts. After his father's death in 1805, he moved to 54 John Street, London. He had four sisters who were all talented artists including Elizabeth Byrne who lived with him. Elizabeth exhibited her own landscapes starting in 1838. The views were of foreign as well as British locations. She created six steel engravings for Thomas H. Shepherd's "Modern Athens". This was published in 1829. Her last known work to be exhibited was in 1849. He provided sets of engravings for Charles Wild's works on cathedrals. Byrne around 1818 was drawing-master at Eton College. He subsequently concentrated on landscape painting in watercolours; his sister Mary and her son were also painters. His work is included in Cadell and Davie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Alexander (painter)
William Alexander (10 April 1767 – 23 July 1816) was an English painter, illustrator and engraver. The hallmarks of his work, usually executed in watercolours, were clearness and harmony of colour, simplicity and taste in composition, grace of outline, and delicacy of execution. He accompanied the Macartney Embassy to China in 1792. Prints of his work were reproduced from engravings. One of his works was used to illustrate Cadell & Davies' '' Britannia depicta''. Life and works Alexander was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of Harry Alexander, a coachmaker. He was educated at Maidstone Grammar School, but in 1782, at the age of 15, moved to London to study art - first under William Pars, and subsequently Julius Caesar Ibbetson. In February 1784, he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools. He assiduously applied himself to the mastery of his profession, obtaining the notice and approbation of Sir Joshua Reynolds. In 1792, he was appointed as one of the draughtsmen to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Woolnoth
William Woolnoth (1780–1837) was an engraver. He was one of the engravers whose work was included in Cadell and Davies ''Britannia depicta''. He did engravings of work by artists such as Thomas Mann Baynes, Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie, Frederick Wilton Litchfield Stockdale and Thomas Allom. He also did the engravings for Edward William Brayley's ''The ancient castles of England and Wales''. He did the engravings for a book that he published in 1816 on the cathedral church of Canterbury (''A graphical illustration of the metropolitan cathedral church of Canterbury; accompanied by a history and description of that venerable fabric'') According to Oxford Reference he also did engraving work in Spain. He was also one of the engravers for The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books (De architectura). His engravings are part of the British Museum collection and National Archives. An engraving by Woolnoth is also included in the Gott Collection of William Gott, a wool merchant, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Woolnoth
Thomas Alfred Woolnoth (1785–1857) was an English engraver. He was known for his portraits of theatre people. He also painted, and engraved works of Correggio and Van Dyck. Woolnoth was engraver to Queen Victoria. His work was also included in Cadell and Davies Cadell and Davies was a publishing company established in London in 1793. The business was formed when bookseller and publisher Thomas Cadell the elder (1742–1802) bequeathed his business to his son Thomas Cadell the younger (1773–1836) and th ... '' Britannia depicta''. Notes External links * 1785 births 1857 deaths English engravers {{England-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Scott (engraver)
John Scott (1774–1827) was an English engraver, known for his work on topics showing animals. Life He was born on 12 March 1774 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where his father, John Scott, worked in a brewery. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to a tallow-chandler; but at the end of his articles went to London, where his fellow-townsman Robert Pollard gave him two years' instruction, at the same time paying him. On leaving Pollard, Scott obtained employment from John Wheble, the proprietor of the ''Sporting Magazine'', and for many years executed the portraits of racehorses published there. He became known among English animal engravers. Scott worked until 1821, when a stroke of paralysis practically terminated his career; during the last years of his life he was assisted by the Artists' Benevolent Fund, of which he had been one of the originators. Scott died at his residence in Chelsea, London, on 24 December 1827. He left a widow, and several daughters; one son, John R. Scott, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pye
John Pye (Birmingham 7 November 1782 – 6 February 1874 London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...) was a British landscape engraver. Life He was the second son of Charles Pye (Birmingham), Charles Pye of Birmingham, where he was born on 7 November 1782; his mother was a daughter of John Radclyffe, also of Birmingham, and aunt of William Radclyffe the engraver. His brother Charles Pye (engraver), Charles Pye was also an engraver. His father published an account of Birmingham, a geographical dictionary, and several series of plates of provincial coins and tokens. These engraved by himself, with the assistance of his son John, who was removed from school when still a child, and received his first instruction in engraving from his father. Later he was a pupil of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Pye (engraver)
Charles Pye Jr. (Birmingham 1777–1864) was a British engraver from Birmingham. He illustrated topographical subjects, and published a ''Holy Family'' after Michelangelo. Life Pye was the elder son of Charles Pye Sr. (see below), an engraver in Birmingham, and the brother of landscape engraver John Pye. He was a pupil of James Heath. During his later years, Pye lived in Leamington. A trade card (proof before engraved letters) is in the Heal Collection (Heal, 59.124) and advertises "C. Pye Engraver, No.14 Charton St. Sommerstown." Works Pye's engravings were published in collections including: * ''Beauties of England Illustrated'' * ''Hunter's History of London'' * Cadell & Davies, ''Britannia depicta''. * J. Scott and P. B. de la Boissière, ''Picturesque Views of the City of Paris and its Environs'' (1823) Pye supplied engravings to designs by William Westall for the early issues of John Poole's ''The Regent, Or, Royal Tablet of Memory''. In 1820 he published a letter, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Neagle
James Neagle (1760?–1822) was a British engraver. Very largely a line engraver of book illustrations, he was prolific of designs by Thomas Stothard, Robert Smirke (painter), Robert Smirke, Henry Fuseli, Gavin Hamilton (artist), Gavin Hamilton, Henry Singleton (painter), Henry Singleton, Richard Cook (artist 1784–1857), Richard Cook, and other popular artists. Life Neagle went to the Royal Academy Schools in 1786. He had many commissions from the publishing firm of Cadell & Davies. In 1801, in a civil action brought by Jean Marie Delattre the engraver against John Singleton Copley, over a plate, Neagle was a witness for the plaintiff. Towards the end of his life (after 1816) he emigrated to America, where he died not long afterwards in 1822. Works Neagle's work included plates for: * John Boydell's and other editions of Shakespeare, including plates after Francis Wheatley (painter), Francis Wheatley; * John Sharpe's and Charles Cooke (publisher), Charles Cooke's series of Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Middiman
Samuel Middiman (1750–1831) was an English engraver. Life He first appeared as an exhibitor of landscape drawings at the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1772 and following years, and in 1780 he exhibited drawings at the Royal Academy. He studied engraving under William Byrne, and is also said to have had instruction in this art from William Woollett. He was employed as an engraver by John Boydell for several years. Middiman died in Cirencester Place, London, on 20 December 1831. Works Middiman engraved for Boydell, in the ''Shakespeare Gallery'': * ''As you like it'', act ii. scene 1, after William Hodges; * ''Winter's Tale'', act iii. scene 3, after Joseph Wright of Derby; * ''First Part of Henry IV'', act ii. scene 2, after Robert Smirke, and Joseph Farington; and * ''As you like it'', act ii. scene 1, after John Boydell. Middiman was known for his engraving of landscape, as a follower out by Woollett and others. He did preliminary work for others, as well as many en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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