Bartholomew Howlett (1767–1827), was an English draughtsman and engraver. Howlett was born in

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in Lincolnshire in 1767. He was the son, by his first marriage, of Bartholomew Howlett, a native of Norfolk, who was settled at Louth. Howlett came to London and served as apprentice to

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, the engraver. He worked mainly on topographical and antiquarian works. In 1801 he engraved and published ''A Selection of Views in the County of Lincoln'', with seventy-five plates from drawings by Thomas Girtin, John Nash, and others, of which a later edition appeared in 1805.A selection of Views in the county of Lincoln
(Miller, 1801). He also executed plates for

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'', Bentham's ''History of Ely'', Frost's ''Notices of Hull'', George Anderson's ''Plan and Views of the Abbey Royal of St. Denys'', the '' Gentleman's Magazine'', and similar works. In 1817 he made a number of drawings for a projected ''History of Clapham'', of which one number only was published. When the Royal Hospital of St. Katherine, near the Tower of London, was pulled down in 1826, Howlett made a number of drawings, with a view to a publication, which never appeared. He made drawings of about a thousand

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of English monastic and religious houses for the notable antiquary John Caley (d. 1834). Subsequently, he fell into financial difficulty, and died at Newington,

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) on 18 December 1827, aged 60.

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External links

Howlett's "Views of Winthorpe"
(Winthorpe Village website, 5 February 2011)
Etching of the monument to Ralph Neville
(National Portrait Gallery, London) {{DEFAULTSORT:Howlett, Bartholomew 1767 births 1827 deaths 18th-century English people 19th-century English people English engravers People from Louth, Lincolnshire British draughtsmen