Edward Radclyffe (1809–1863) was a British engraver, known from his illustrations of

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's ''The London & Birmingham railway'' from 1839 in cooperation with George Dodgson Callow. Entrance to Euston Station on the London and Birmingham railway

Entrance to Euston Station on the London and Birmingham railway

Biography

Grave of Edward Radclyffe in Highgate Cemetery

Born in 1809 in Birmingham, where he was educated under his father

William Radclyffe William Radclyffe (20 October 1783 – 29 December 1855) was an English engraver and painter. Born in Birmingham and self-educated, he was apprenticed to a letter engraver and studied drawing under Joseph Barber with his cousin John Pye. B ...

and Vincent Barber, and followed his father's profession as an engraver.Keary, Charles Francis (1896). " Radclyffe, William". In Lee, Sidney. ''Dictionary of National Biography'' 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 230. He received medals for engraving at the ages of fifteen and seventeen from the Society of Arts in London, and in his twenty-first year removed to the metropolis. He was largely employed in engraving for the ‘annuals,’ then so popular, and for the ‘Art Journal’ and other works. He also was employed for many years by the admiralty in engraving charts. Like his father, Radclyffe was a close friend of David Cox the Elder, and published several etchings and engravings from his works. He planned a "liber studiorum" in imitation of J. M. W. Turner's ‘

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’ , but had executed only three etchings for this at the time of his death in November 1863. At the end of his life he was living in Clifton Villas, Camden,

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(now Cliff Villas) and was a close neighbour of

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. He was buried on the western side of

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, and his wife, son, daughter and daughter-in-law were later buried with him. He had married, in 1838, Maria, daughter of Major

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of Round Oak,

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, Surrey.

Gallery

Edward Radclyffe - Stag at the Edge of a Pond - B1998.14.281 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, Edward Radclyffe, ''Stag at the Edge of a Pond'', Yale Center for British Art Edward Radclyffe - St Michael's Church, Stockwell - B1977.14.15758 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, Edward Radclyffe, ''St Michael's Church, Stockwell'', Yale Center for British Art Edward Radclyffe - British Museum, Elgin Room - B1998.14.235 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, Edward Radclyffe, ''British Museum, Elgin Room'', Yale Center for British Art Edward Radclyffe - Fall of Foyers, Invernesshire - B1998.14.754 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, Edward Radclyffe, ''Fall of Foyers, Invernesshire'', Yale Center for British Art View from Coopers Hill, with Runnemede and Windsor Castle engraved by E.Radclyffe after a picture by Thomas Allom publ 1842 edited.jpg, ''View from Coopers Hill, with Runnemede and Windsor Castle'' engraved by E.Radclyffe after a picture by Thomas Allom published in 1842 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Line engraving by E. Radclyffe a Wellcome V0002299.jpg, ''Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'', a line engraving by Edward Radclyffe, Wellcome King Edward VI's grammar school, Birmingham. Stipple engravi Wellcome V0012233.jpg, ''King Edward VI's grammar school, Birmingham'', stipple engraving by Edward Radclyffe after H. Harris after Sir C. Barry

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1809 births 1863 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery 19th-century engravers British engravers People from Birmingham, West Midlands {{UK-printmaker-stub