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   Basire
   James II
   J. B ; Basire the Younger ;
   
   line engraver ->James III Basire (son)
   1769 in London
   1822 (? OR 1835 ?)
   Chigwell Wells, Essex
   engraver ->James Basire I
   map-maker ->Isaac Basire (1704-1768) (grandfather) ; ->James III Basire (son) ;
   on the job training by his father & grandfather
   England, UK
   William Herschel ; Plan of the harbour of Holyhead, on which is represented the proposed extension of the Pier, and of a Wet Dock in the interior harbour (London 1816) ; -> Franz Bauer in: Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Arts (Ser. 7), vol. 6 [1819] & in Philosophicaql Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1818-1826
   succeeded his father as Engraver to the Royal Society of London (esp. for their Philosophical Transactions), & for the Society of Antiquaries, London
   with other members of his family (see above) ; w. artist -> Franz Bauer
   architectural, topographical, astronomical, technical, and natural history copperplate engraving ; hand-colouring
   
   www.answers.com/topic/basire-1
   Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; W. S. Doxey: William Blake, J.B. & the Philosophical Transactions, Bulletin of the New York Publ. Library 72 (1968): 252-260 ; Omar Nasim: Observing by Hand. Sketching the Nebulae (Chicago 2014: 172 & 265) ; Lack 2015: 209, 354, 363; 390, 394-395 ; Richard Goddard: "Drawing on Copper": The Basire family of copper-plate engravers and their works (Maastricht 2017);
   
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