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. His engravings were chiefly in

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. They include works after

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and

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, and a series of allegories of the months after

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, published by

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in 1807–9. His illustrations for

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's ''Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman: Selected from different collections in Great Britain'' (1809), have been described by

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as "the finest ever made of sculpture".

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National Portrait Gallery Profile
* 1773 births 1858 deaths 18th-century English painters 19th-century English male artists 19th-century English painters English male painters English portrait painters English engravers 18th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub