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    John Boydell (/ˈbɔɪdəl/; 19 January 1720 (New Style) – 12 December 1804) was an English publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped...
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  • John Boydell (1720–1804), English publisher Josiah Boydell (1752–1817), English publisher and painter This page lists people with the surname Boydell...
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  • Australian politician James Boydell (died 1860), British inventor John Boydell (1720–1804), British publisher Josiah Boydell (1752–1817), British publisher...
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  • Gallery with his uncle, John Boydell. Boydell was born in Hawarden, Flintshire, the fourth child of a farmer, Samuel Boydell (1727–1783), and his wife...
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  • Boydell & Brewer is an academic press based in Martlesham, Suffolk, England, that specializes in publishing historical and critical works. In addition...
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    edition of James Cook's third voyage. In 1786, he became involved with John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and bore responsibility for the letterpress. He...
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    Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in London, England, was the first stage of a three-part project initiated in November 1786 by engraver and publisher John...
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  • colours of light. However, he was obsessed with Mary Boydell, niece of the publisher John Boydell, and in 1787 was arrested for attempting to murder her...
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    supernatural experiences, such as The Nightmare. He painted works for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and created his own "Milton Gallery". He held the...
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    John William Edy (1760 – 1820) was an English painter. He worked for the publisher John Boydell in London, often anonymously. In the summer of 1800 Edy...
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    (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (from Boydell and Brewer, 1982), History of Parliament online (accessed 1 October 2022)...
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    In 1761, publisher John Boydell hired William Woollett, the foremost engraver in England, to make a print of Wilson's Niobe. Boydell wanted a spectacular...
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    were already well known and they moved to London at the invitation of John Boydell, with whom they worked for many years. "Facius, Georg Siegmund and Johann...
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    Moses Receiving the Law. It was originally commissioned by John Boydell who ran the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. It is now in the collection of the National...
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    plates taking months or years to complete, but as Blake's contemporary, John Boydell, realised, such engraving offered a "missing link with commerce", enabling...
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    her cousin; who sold the rights to William Hogarth's copper plates to John Boydell, for an annuity. Much of the remaining Hogarth collections, including...
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    mezzotint was engraved from it by Valentine Green which was published by John Boydell on 24 June 1769, and initially sold for 15 shillings. This was reprinted...
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    The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 (category Paintings by John Singleton Copley)
    British forces quickly overwhelmed the French, most of whom surrendered. John Boydell, a successful engraver and publisher and Aldermen of the City of London...
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    West's painting Penn's Treaty with the Indians. This was published by John Boydell in June 1775, with the image reversed, under the longer title William...
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  • original plates survived, and were sold by Hogarth's widow, Jane, to John Boydell in 1789; by him to Baldwin, Cradock and Joy in 1818; and then to Henry...
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  • Committee named Boydell Glacier on Trinity Peninsula in northern Graham Land, Antarctica, after him. Bramah Joseph Diplock Pedrail wheel Clarke, John Algernon...
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    commissioned by the publisher John Boydell for his Shakespeare Gallery. Fuseli also made a large pendant for Boydell's gallery, Titania's Awakening, which...
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    who won the Great British Menu BBC TV programme. 1750 hunting scene by John Boydell Denbigh c.1778 from Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Wales Town and castle...
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    Lady Diana Beauclerk (née Lady Diana Spencer; other married name Diana St John, Viscountess Bolingbroke; 24 March 1734 – 1 August 1808) was an English noblewoman...
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    Rome and the Ark of the Covenant: Housing the Holy Relics of Jerusalem". Boydell & Brewer. Archived from the original on 24 December 2019. "Pope Francis...
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    works of William Hogarth. In 1793 he was employed by John Boydell to edit a work on the lines of John Trusler's Hogarth Moralised, and called Hogarth Illustrated...
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  • received, but Burke was increasingly criticised for repetition. As critic John Gunther remarked, "[it] may be true that London is big enough to stand nine...
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    which he became a full member in 1788. He painted five subjects for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery; and until his death, his practice alternated between...
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    October 2008. Balbi, Francesco (2005). The Siege of Malta, 1565. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-84383-140-2. Archived from the original on 30...
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    Knights of King John. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5215-5319-3. —— (2007). King John: New Interpretations. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-8511-5947-8...
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