J. B. ; Jacobus / J. Basire Sr. / Basire the Elder printmaker ;
->James II Basire (1769-1822 ? OR 1835 ?)
1730
1802
London
map maker ->Isaac Basire (1704-1768)
->James II Basire (son) ; James III Basire (grand-son) ;
taught by Richard William Seale & by his father; he young William Blake was apprenticed for 50 guineas to J.B. I in 1772-79
United Kingdom
Thomas Martyn (1735-1825) ; Royal Society (esp. their Philosophical Transactions) ; Timothy Sheldrake; W. E. T. Brande: Manual of Chemistry, (1819) ; Charles Hutton: An Account of the Calculations made from the Survey and Measures Tables at Schehallian in Order to Ascertain the Mean Density of the Earth (London 1778); Luigi Galvani & Alessandro Volta ;
Royal Society of London (since 1770 major engraver for their Philosophical Transactions) ; Society of Antiquaries, London ;
William Clift ; Roger Dalton, librarian to Prince of Wales & keeper of royal drawings under George III & travel companion in Italy 1763 ;
astronomical, zoological, natural, and technical etching and copperplate engraving
Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Bryan I (1886): 227 ; Bibliogr. & Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer, printer, F.S.A. & many of his learned friends (London 1782) ; William S. Doxey: William Blake, J. B. & Phil. Trans., Bulletin of the New York Public Library 72 (1968): 252-60 ; Omar Nasim: Observing by Hand. Sketching the Nebulae (Chicago 2014: 172 & 265) ; Richard Goddard: "Drawing on Copper": The Basire family of copper-plate engravers and their works (Maastricht 2017); Escardó 2022: 138f. & 146 ; Becker 2015: 106 ;
The Basires lived & worked in London at Great Queen Street near Lincoln's Inn Fields. Further Place of activity: Italy (in 1763).
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