Richard Duppa (1770–1831) was an English writer and a draughtsman.

Life

He was the son of William Duppa of

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, Shropshire. He studied art in Rome in his youth, and showed himself a skilful draughtsman. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, on 9 November 1807, aged 37, and became a student of the Middle Temple on 7 February 1810. He graduated LL.B. at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1814. He wrote on botanical, artistic and political topics and was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He died in

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on 11 July 1831.

Works

Duppa's chief works were: * ''A Journal of … the subversion of the Ecclesiastical Government in 1798'', London, 1799, 3rd ed. 1807. * ''A Selection of twelve heads from the Last Judgment of Michael Angelo'', 1801, imperial folio. * ''Heads from the Fresco Pictures of Raffaele in the Vatican'', 1803, folio. * ''Memoirs 742–57of a Literary and Political Character'', i.e. Richard Glover (1712–1785), whom Duppa seeks to identify with Junius, London, 1803. * ''The Life and Literary Works of Michael Angelo Buonarotti, with his Poetry and Letters'', London, 1806, with fifty etched plates; 2nd ed. 1807, 3rd ed. 1816 (reissued in Bohn's ''European Library'', 1846, and in Bohn's ''Illustrated Library'', 1869). * ''Elements of innæanBotany'', 1809. * ''Illustrations of the Lotus of Antiquity'', London, 1813, 4to; reissued in folio, 1816, in an edition of twenty-five copies (cf. Pritzel, Thes. Lit. Bot. 2nd ed. p. 95). * ''The Classes and Orders of the Linnæan System of Botany. Illustrated by select specimens of foreign and indigenous plants'', 1816, octavo. * ''Dr. Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales in 1774'', first printed and elaborately edited by Duppa in 1816 with

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's help (incorporated in John Wilson Croker's ''Boswell''). * ''Life of Raffaele'',’ 1816. * ''Outlines of Michael Angelo's Works, with Plans of St. Peter's, Rome'', 1816. * ''Miscellaneous Observations on the Continent'', 1825; reissued in 1828 as ''Travels in Italy, Sicily, and the Lipari Islands''. * ''Maxims and Reflections'', 1830. Duppa also issued pamphlets on literary copyright (1813), on Junius (1814), and on the price of corn (1815), besides many classical schoolbooks. His library was sold on 3–7 September 1831.

Family

A relative of the same name died at

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, Shropshire, on 25 February 1831, while

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. An elder brother, John Wood Duppa (1762–1840), was rector of Puddlestone, Herefordshire.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duppa, Richard 1770 births 1831 deaths Writers from Shropshire 18th-century English non-fiction writers 18th-century English male writers 19th-century English non-fiction writers Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London British draughtsmen