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Last Name Basire

Given Name Isaac

alt. Names I. B. ;

Marriage

Children engraver -> James I (1730-1802)

Year born 1704

Year died 1768

Place of death London

Father's occupation

Relatives engraver-son -> James I (1730-1802), engr.-grandson ->James II (1769-1822), and line engr. great-grandson James III (1796-1869).

Education

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for Plan of the town and fortifications of Gibraltar : exactly taken on the spot in the year 1738; Battle of Donawert fought on the second of June 1704 between a Detachment of the Allies, and a Body of French and Bavarian Troops, London 1745

Patronage

Collaborators with his son, who succeeded I.B. as engraver, printmaker & draughtsman

Techniques cartographical and topographical copperplate engraving and maps ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) http://razoncartografica.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/basire-1741.png ;

Archival sources en.wikisource.org/wiki/Basire,_Isaac_(1704-1768)_(DNB00) www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=133182

Published sources Frederick Wedmore: DNB 3 (1886); Lucy Peltz in Oxford DNB 2004; Richard Goddard: "Drawing on Copper": The Basire family of copper-plate engravers and their works (Maastricht 2017);

other active mostly in London, where his address was St. John's Court, near Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, London

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