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Last Name Major

Given Name Thomas

alt. Names T. M. ; Jorma / Jor. Le Blanc ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1714 / 1720

Year died 1799

Place of death London, England, UK

Father's occupation Richard Major of Hursley

Relatives

Education pupil of Gravelot in London, ->Jacques-Philippe Le Bas in Paris and Cochin

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for obstetrician William Hunter: Anatomia uteri 1774, pl. 3.; Thomas Major: The Ruins of Paestum, 1786 ; Thomas Pennant: A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, Chester 1774-1776, vol. 1, p. 263;

Patronage George II&III Chief Engraver of His Majesty's Seals; Engraver of the Stamp Office

Collaborators ->Jan van Rymsdyk; Andrew Lawrence; ->John Ingram

Techniques anatomical, architectural, geological & topographic copperplate engraving

Sample(s) http://www.library.utoronto.ca/anatomical/RBAI047/0004-0-0.jpg

Archival sources Royal Academy of Arts Collections: http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&person=5790

Published sources AKL; ThB 23 1929, 580Choulant 1920: 296; Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol. 35 ; Carl Gustav Carus: Wahrnehmung und Konstruktion, Dresden 2009, p.185

other T.M. accompanied Gravelot to Netherlands

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