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Charles John Smith (1803–1838) was an English engraver.
He executed a few of the later plates in Charles Stothard's ''Monumental Effigies'', the views of houses and monuments in Edmund Cartwright's ''Rape of Bramber'', 1830, and plates from illuminated manuscripts for
''Historical and Literary Curiosities'', at archive.org
;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Charles John 1803 births 1838 deaths English engravers Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Life
He was born in 1803 atChelsea
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where his father, James Smith, practised as a surgeon. He was a pupil of Charles Pye, and became an engraver of book illustrations of a topographical and antiquarian character. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
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in 1837, and died of paralysis in Albany Street, London, on 23 November 1838.
Works
He executed a few of the later plates in Charles Stothard's ''Monumental Effigies'', the views of houses and monuments in Edmund Cartwright's ''Rape of Bramber'', 1830, and plates from illuminated manuscripts for Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (177618 November 1847) was an English bibliographer, born in Calcutta to Thomas Dibdin, the sailor brother of the composer Charles Dibdin.
Dibdin was orphaned at a young age. His father died in 1778 while returning to En ...
's ''Tour in the Northern Counties of England'', 1838. In 1829 Smith published a series of ''Autographs of Royal, Noble, and Illustrious Persons'', with memoirs by John Gough Nichols
John Gough Nichols (1806–1873) was an English painter and antiquary, the third generation in a family publishing business with strong connection to learned antiquarianism.
Life
The eldest son of John Bowyer Nichols, he was born at his fath ...
, and later started another serial work, ''Historical and Literary Curiosities'', which he did not live to complete.
References
*External links
''Historical and Literary Curiosities'', at archive.org
;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Charles John 1803 births 1838 deaths English engravers Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London