Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt (1799 – 30 May 1869) was a British architectural wood-engraver.

Biography

Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt was born in

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, the son of Arthur Jewitt and brother of

Llewellyn Jewitt Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (or Llewellyn) (24 November 1816 – 5 June 1886) was a British illustrator, engraver, natural scientist and author of ''The Ceramic Art of Great Britain'' (1878). His output was prodigious and covered a l ...

. Before the introduction of photographic processes in the late nineteenth century, wood-engraving was the standard method of book illustration. Jewitt's illustrations were widely used between 1820 and 1870. Many of his prints are still reproduced in modern works and are frequently to be found in reference works covering architecture, archaeology, typography and natural history. He produced numerous prints used for seals and bookplates. At time of the 1841 census, Jewitt was living at Church House, St Andrew's Road,

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; besides him, his wife Phoebe and three children, the census returns also record his brother, George Jewitt, a letter-press printer, and his apprentice, Edward Bower, at the same address. He was considered as one of the ten men suitable to serve as parish constable of Headington in 1844 and 1845. In 1855 Jewitt was

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of St Andrew's Church, but later that year made a sudden decision to relocated to

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. Jewitt died on Sunday 30 May 1869 in Camden Square,

, and was buried in Paddington Old Cemetery. His wife died on 11 March 1883.

Gallery

Books illustrated

*J. H. Parker.
A Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford
' (F. & J. Rivington, 1842) *J. H. Parker. ''Glossary of Architecture'' (Parker, archaeologist and publisher of Oxford) *''A Manual of British Archaeology'' (Charles Boutell, London, Lovell 1858) *

Matthew Holbeche Bloxam Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (12 May 1805 – 24 April 1888), a native of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, was a Warwickshire antiquary and amateur archeologist, author of a popular guide to Gothic architecture. He was the original source of the legend o ...

.
Principles of Gothic Architecture
' * 1863 Lovell Reeve (1814–1865), (with illustrations by

George Brettingham Sowerby II George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812 – 26 July 1884) was a British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist. Together with his father, George Brettingham Sowerby I, he published the ''Thesaurus Conchyliorum'' and other illustrated works ...

and Orlando Jewitt). ''The land and freshwater mollusks indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles''. Reeve & Co., London. *''Churches of Northamptonshire'' *''Domestic Architecture'' *''Guidebooks to the English Cathedrals'' *''Memorials of Westminster Abbey'' (Scott) *Books on Venice and Spain ( Street )

Bibliography

* Broomhead, Frank. ''The Book Illustrations of Orlando Jewitt''. Pinner, Middlesex:

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, 1995 * ''Orlando Jewitt:Wood Engraver (Harry Carter, Oxford University Press 1962)Antiquarian Books :: ILAB-LILA :: International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jewitt, Orlando English illustrators English engravers English writers 1799 births 1869 deaths People from Buxton Jewitt family Burials at Paddington Old Cemetery