Browse DSIDetails of the item << Previous Next >> Boydell John J. B. ; Elizabeth Lloyd (1xxx-1781) in 1748 ; no 1720 in St Olave Old Jewry, London 1804 London land surveyor Boydell's business partner Josiah Boydell (1750-1817) (nephew), who continued business at 90 Cheapside, but by 1818, business was finished apprenticed to engr. -> William Henry Toms ; England, UK J. B. established his own business in 1746 ; in 1790 he became Lord Mayor of London ; copperplate engraver -> Anthony Walker ; topographical and technical copperplate engraving ; mostly artsy illustrations ; www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/conMediaFile.154/A-view-taken-near-Limehouse-Bridgeby-John-Boydell.html ; BNBF: Recueil. Oeuvre de John Boydell; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boydell ; DNB 6 (1886): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Boydell,_John_%28DNB00%29; Klingender 1968/74: 70-73, 250 & figure 5 ; English engraver, print publisher, and occasional scientific illustrator. 59137316
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