Benjamin Thomas Pouncy (died 1799) was an English draughtsman and engraver.

Life

He was the son of Edward Pouncy, born around 1750, and the family background was in Kent. He was a pupil of

William Woollett William Woollett (15 August 173523 May 1785) was an English engraver operating in the 18th century. Life Woolett was born in Maidstone, of a family which came originally from the Netherlands. He was apprenticed to John Tinney, an engraver i ...

, stated to have been his brother-in-law by the '' Gentleman's Magazine''. He obtained employment through

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, and from the 1770s assisted Andrew Ducarel in his researches with illustrations. A fellow of the Incorporated Society of Artists, Pouncy exhibited topographical views with them in 1772 and 1773; he also sent such works to the

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in 1782, 1788, and 1789. He died in Pratt Street, Lambeth, on 22 August 1799, and was buried in the graveyard of the parish church.

Works

Pouncy executed facsimiles of the Domesday surveys for

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and Worcestershire. He engraved the plates for antiquarian and topographical works, including: * Andrew Ducarel's ''History of St. Katherine's Hospital'', 1782; * Thomas Astle's ''Origin and Progress of Writing'', 1784; * ''Some Account of the Alien Priories'', edited by John Nichols, 1779; and * John Ives, ''Remarks upon the Garianonum of the Romans'', 1774. In later life, Pouncy produced plates of landscape and marine subjects after popular artists, such as: Chinese military drawn out for British embassador

Chinese military drawn out for British embassador

* ''Athens in its Flourishing State'', after Richard Wilson, and ''Athens in its Present State of Ruin'', after Solomon Delane (a pair); * ''Sortie made by the Garrison of Gibraltar on 27 Nov. 1781'', after

Antonio Poggi Antonio Poggi (1806 – 15 April 1875) was an Italian operatic tenor who had an active international career from 1827–1848. He is best remembered for creating roles in the world premieres of operas by Gaetano Donizetti and Giuseppe Ve ...

; * The building, chase, unlading, and dissolution of a cutter (a set of four), after John Kitchingman, 1783 and 1785; * ''N.W. View of Rochester'', after

Joseph Farington Joseph Farington (21 November 1747 – 30 December 1821) was an 18th-century English landscape painter and diarist. Life and work Born in Leigh, Lancashire, Farington was the second of seven sons of William Farington and Esther Gilbody. His ...

, 1790; * ''The Morning of the Glorious First of June 1794'', after Robert Cleveley, 1796; * ''The Windmill'' and ''The Watermill'', from his own drawings, 1787; and * Four landscapes after J. Hearne. Pouncy also executed many of the plates for Captain Cook's second and third ''Voyages'', after William Hodges and John Webber, 1777 and 1784; George Staunton's ''Embassy of Lord Macartney to China'', 1797; Farington's ''Views of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmorland'', 1789;

Robert Bowyer Robert Bowyer (; bap. 18 June 1758 – 4 June 1834) was a British miniature painter and publisher. Bowyer was born in Portsmouth to Amos and Betty Ann Bowyer and baptized on 18 June 1758. His first job was as a clerk to a merchant in Portsmouth ...

's ''History of England'', Thomas Macklin's Bible, and the ''Copperplate Magazine''. Woollett engraved ''The Grotto at Amwell'', from a drawing by Pouncy, as an illustration to John Scott of Amwell's ''Poems'', 1782.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Pouncy, Benjamin Thomas Year of birth missing 1799 deaths English engravers British draughtsmen