Buckle by EDWARDS, WILLIAM CAMDEN - GMII

William Camden Edwards (1777 – 22 August 1855) was a

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engraver.

Biography

Edwards was born in Monmouthshire in 1777. Early in the nineteenth century he went to Bungay, Suffolk, to engrave portraits and illustrations for the Bible, ''

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'', and similar works published by the Bungay printer Charles Brightly. He left Bungay after Brightly's death, but eventually returned and settled there until his death on 22 August 1855. He was buried in the cemetery of Holy Trinity, Bungay. The banker and antiquary

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held in his collection a complete series of his engravings and etchings. Edwards was very industrious, and his productions were varied. The majority of his plates were portraits, in which he excelled. Among these were

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, Dr. Johnson, after Reynolds,

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, after Reynolds,

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, after John Jackson,

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, after a self-portrait,

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, after Sir Thomas Lawrence,

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, after Charles Fox (1784-1849), Frank Sayers after

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, and many others. Among his other plates were ''Milton and his Daughters'', after George Romney, a landscape after Salvator Rosa, and ''The Head of St. John the Baptist on a Charger'', from a picture in

's collection.

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* An engraving of by

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for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838, with a poetical illustration by

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