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Joseph John Skelton (1783–1871) was an English engraver.
At Oxford he published ''Oxonia Antiqua Illustrata'' (1823); ''Antiquities of Oxfordshire'', from drawings by F. Mackenzie (1823); ''Pietas Oxoniensis, or Records of Oxford Founders'' (1828); and ''Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour from the Collection at Goodrich Court from the Drawings, and with the Descriptions of Dr. Meyrick'', (2 volumes, 1830). He also engraved the heading to the Oxford almanacks for the years 1815 to 1831, from drawings by F. Mackenzie and C. Wild; and executed a set of fifty-six etchings of the antiquities of Bristol after Hugh O'Neill, 1825. His Oxfordshire notes and collections are in the Bodleian Library.
In France he engraved many of the plates to Charles Gavard's ''Galeries Historiques de Versailles'', 1836; Jean Vatout's ''Le Château d'Eu'', 1844; and Eusèbe Girault de Saint-Fargeau's ''Les Beautés de la France'', 1850.
Colin Franklin, 'Joseph Skelton, A Neglected Oxford Antiquary', The Book Collector 59.1 (Spring 2010), 47-67.
Life
He was brother ofWilliam Skelton
William Skelton (1763–1848) was an English engraver.
Life
He was born in London on 14 June 1763, the brother of the engraver Joseph Skelton. He studied in the schools of the Royal Academy, and was a pupil first of James Basire and later of ...
, and became an engraver specialising in topographical
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and antiquarian
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subjects. Before 1819 he went to live at Oxford
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. He left Oxford in 1830 for Edinburgh (after which he went to France), but had returned to London by 1851. A subscription was raised for him in Oxford in 1856 on account of poverty, and he was granted a place in the Charterhouse in 1859, where he died in 1871. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
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in 1825; his name disappears from its lists in 1844.
Works
At Oxford he published ''Oxonia Antiqua Illustrata'' (1823); ''Antiquities of Oxfordshire'', from drawings by F. Mackenzie (1823); ''Pietas Oxoniensis, or Records of Oxford Founders'' (1828); and ''Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour from the Collection at Goodrich Court from the Drawings, and with the Descriptions of Dr. Meyrick'', (2 volumes, 1830). He also engraved the heading to the Oxford almanacks for the years 1815 to 1831, from drawings by F. Mackenzie and C. Wild; and executed a set of fifty-six etchings of the antiquities of Bristol after Hugh O'Neill, 1825. His Oxfordshire notes and collections are in the Bodleian Library.
In France he engraved many of the plates to Charles Gavard's ''Galeries Historiques de Versailles'', 1836; Jean Vatout's ''Le Château d'Eu'', 1844; and Eusèbe Girault de Saint-Fargeau's ''Les Beautés de la France'', 1850.
Colin Franklin, 'Joseph Skelton, A Neglected Oxford Antiquary', The Book Collector 59.1 (Spring 2010), 47-67.References
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