portrait paintress Matilda Porter Heming; Anne Boyd ; engravers Joseph Wilson L (1803-79); authoress & mineralogist Devalle Lowry Varley
1762 in Whitehaven, Cumberland
1824
London
portrait painter Strickland Lowry (1737-1785)
landscapist John Varley (1778-1842) (son-in-law) ; Hugh Stuart Boyd (son-in-law) ;
house painter in London, engravers Ross & John Boydell; started medicine at London; Malton Sr. at Royal Academy
United Kingdom
Reverend Abraham Rees: Cyclopedia (1802-20); Georg Crabb: Universal Technological Dictionary (1823); John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory &Newton Bosworth: Pantologia (1813); William Nicholson/Jeremiah Joyce: Brit Encyclopedia (1809); John Smeaton's Reports (1812); mineralogist William Philipps & ->James Sowerby ;
since 1812, W.L. was fellow of the Royal Society, London; also worked forsurgeon William Blizard; Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine; Geological Society
engraver ->Thomas Milton ; engraver ->Aaron Arrowsmith ; ->William Blake ; ->John Boydell ; ->John Farey Jr ; artist ->Sydenham Edwards ; artist ->John Smeaton ; artist ->James Sowerby in his British Mineralogy (1802ff.) ;
architectural, mineralogical, technical, topographical, and zoological copperplate engraving, steel etching & engraving, and diamond point engraving ;
further links in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Lowry ; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lowry,_Wilson_%28DNB00%29 ;
AKL ; DNB 34 1893 ; Klingender 1968/74: 25 & 81-2 ; W. E. Wilson in Mineralogical Record 25, 1994: 88 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 #4742 ; Frances Robertson: Delineating a Rational Profession: The Machine Drawings of Engineers in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain, Textimage 7 (2015), parts 1-2, online https://www.revue-textimage.com/11_illustration_science/robertson1.html and ...2.html
Worcester; invented engraving tools: ruling machine, curve & perspectival drawers, diamond point, corrosive steel etching; engraving of machines and architecture; his mineral collection was dispersed in auction in 1830; also worked for James Murphy: Plans of the Church of Batalha & Peter Nichelson
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