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    William Sharp (29 January 1749 – 25 July 1824), was a British engraver and artist. Sharp was the son of a reputable gunsmith who lived at Haydon's Yard...
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  • William Sharp may refer to: William Sharp (engraver) (1749–1824), English engraver William Sharp (lithographer) (1803–1875), English-born lithographer...
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  • Sharp (born 1950), American politician Wilf Sharp (1907–1981), English footballer with Airdrieonians and Sheffield Wednesday William Sharp (engraver)...
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    Engraving (redirect from Engraver)
    (1553–1619) Of gems: Pyrgoteles, Alexander's gem-engraver Theodorus of Samos, Polycrates' gem-engraver Of guns: Malcolm Appleby Geoffroy Gournet Lynton...
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  • (born 1788) 26 May – Capel Lofft, writer (born 1751) 25 July – William Sharp, engraver (born 1749) 23 September – John Cartwright, political reformer...
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  • January – William Sharp, engraver (died 1824) 17 May – Edward Jenner, physician (died 1823) 18 June – Ambrose Philips, poet (born 1675) 3 July – William Jones...
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    Wood engraving (redirect from Wood engraver)
    and the original artwork was actually destroyed by the engraver. In 1860, however, the engraver Thomas Bolton invented a process for transferring a photograph...
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    William Skelton (1763–1848) was an English engraver. He was born in London on 14 June 1763, the brother of the engraver Joseph Skelton. He studied in...
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  • 1865) was an English line engraver. Golding was born in London, of humble parentage. He was apprenticed in 1799 to an engraver named Pass, but at the end...
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    Cooper, the elder, an engraver, for six years. Strange fought in the rising of 1745. While with the army at Inverness, he engraved a plate for the bank-notes...
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    Thomas Bewick (category English wood engravers)
    age of 14 he was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, an engraver in Newcastle, where he learnt how to engrave on wood and metal, for example marking jewellery...
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    Michael William Sharp (1776? – 1840) was an English painter. He was born in London, and was a pupil of Sir William Beechey. He also studied in the schools...
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  • William Sharp (1803–1875) was a British-born painter who is credited with introducing chromolithography to America in 1840. Sharp had worked for the lithographer...
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    Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and...
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    figures than any ancient engraver would have tolerated or attempted". Among artists, the wealthy Rubens was a notable collector. Engraved gems occur in the Bible...
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    Thomas Sharp ( 7 November 1770 – 12 August 1841) was an English antiquarian. Sharp was the only son of Thomas Sharp of Coventry, hatter, was born on 7...
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  • featured work by the following engravers: James Baylie Allen Robert Brandard J. Goodyear William Radclyffe C. W. Sharp James Tibbets Willmore E. P. Brandard...
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    William Hogarth FRSA (/ˈhoʊɡɑːrθ/; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial...
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    William Marshall (fl. 1617–1649) was a seventeenth-century British engraver and illustrator, mostly known for his allegorical portrait of King Charles...
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    Hofkrystalschneider or court glass engraver with his workshop working largely to service the court, including making glasses, often engraved with his portrait, for...
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  • John Simon (also spelled Simons; c. 1675–1751) was an English mezzotint engraver and print publisher of French Huguenot birth, particularly known for his...
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    William Byrd (/bɜːrd/; c. 1540 – 4 July 1623) was an English Renaissance composer. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had...
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  • – The Sharp Family February 26 – Étienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (died 1863) March (probable) – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter...
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    James Stow (category English engravers)
    was an English engraver. Born near Maidstone about 1770, the son of a labourer. At the age of thirteen he is said to have engraved a plate from Bartolomé...
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  • Chief Engraver of the Royal Mint is a senior position at the British Royal Mint who is responsible for overseeing the preparation of coin dies. Challis...
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  • Bewick (1753–1828) – English wood engraver and ornithologist Thomas Stothard (1755–1834 – English painter and engraver Prince Hoare (1755–1834) – painter...
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  • Barak Longmate (category 18th-century English engravers)
    heraldic engraver and publisher. Longmate was born in 1738, son of Barak and Elizabeth Longmate of St James's, Westminster in London. He engraved some topographical...
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    editors up or down. The number of active editors in English Wikipedia, by sharp comparison, was cited as peaking in 2007 at approximately 50,000 and dropping...
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    used drypoint include Louise Bourgeois, Vija Celmins, William Kentridge and Richard Spare. Any sharp object can theoretically be used to make a drypoint...
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    Black-backed woodpecker (category Taxa named by William John Swainson)
    beetles taken are in the families Cerambycidae and Buprestidae, along with engraver beetles and the mountain pine beetle. Most food is obtained by pecking...
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