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Last Name Taylor

Given Name Issac

alt. Names I. T. ;

Marriage Sarah Hackshaw Jefferys (1733–1809) in 1784

Children engraver Charles Taylor (1756-1823) ; Isaac Taylor (1759-1829) ; Josiah (1761–1834); Sarah (1763–1845) ; Ann (1765–1832)

Year born 1730 in Worchester

Year died 1807

Place of death Edmonton, London

Father's occupation artisan William Taylor (1693-1xxx)

Relatives author and Baptist minister John Howard Hinton (1791-1873) (grand-son)

Education taught by cartographer Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719-1771) in London

Country of Activity France

Worked for Jean Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval (1799-1879) ; Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) ;

Patronage

Collaborators Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815) ; Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) ; David Garrick (1717-1779) ; Richard Smirke (1778–1815) ; Henry Fuseli (German: Johann Heinrich Füssli) (1741-1825) ;

Techniques entomological, geological, animal, and natural engraving ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Taylor_(engraver) ;

Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 949 & 1621 ; Lee, Sidney (ed.): Taylor, Isaac (1730-1807), in: Dictionary of National Biography 55 (London 1898) ;

other Not to mixed up with the lithographer Issac Weld Taylor (1812-1891).

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