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James Baylis Allen

Header: James Baylis Allen
Also known as: James Baylis Allen; primary name: Allen, James Baylis
Details: individual; printmaker; British; Male
Life dates: 1803-1876
Address: 68 Hermitage Place, St. John Street Road, London (in 1833) Gloucester Place, St. Pancras, London (in 1841) 108 Camden Road Villas, Camden Town, London (in 1846-1855) 11 Queens Road, Kentish Town, London (in 1859-61) 86 Brecknock Road, Upper Holloway, London (in 1871)
Biography: English landscape engraver and artist. Principally known for a wide variety of landscape engravings after the leading topographical artists of the day. Born Birmingham 18 April 1803. The son of Joseph Allen, a button manufacturer, and his wife Elizabeth. Apprenticed to his elder brother Josiah, a general engraver, in about 1818. Originally worked on labels, patterns, etc. Exhibited at RSBA 1833. Died Camden Town 11 January 1876. Buried Highgate Cemetery. His son, Walter James Allen, was a wood-engraver for 'The Art Journal'.
Bibliography: Census Returns. Hunnisett. (Information from Laurence Worms).

182 related objects

book; print; drawing

Title: Switzerland. Illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by W. H. Bartlett |
Museum number: 1958,0712.3008.1-76 |
Producer name: After:William Henry BartlettAfter:Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

book; print

Title: Switzerland. Illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by W. H. Bartlett |
Museum number: 1958,0712.3007.1-64 |
Producer name: After:William Henry BartlettAfter:Jean-Emmanuel Locher |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)Published in:London (England)

book of prints; print

Museum number: 1919,0415.17.1-75 |
Producer name: After:James Duffield HardingPublished by:A H Baily & Co |
Production date: 1834 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Form in the Clouds |
Museum number: 1889,0724.63 |
Producer name: After:George CattermolePrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1846

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.4342 |
Producer name: After:Eugène LamiPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1840-1850

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1848,1013.295 |
Producer name: After:William HarveyPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1820-1850

print

Title: The Friend of the People. / Thomas Attwood, Esqr. |
Museum number: 1864,0309.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward ScrivenPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Printed in:Birmingham (West Midlands)Published in:Birmingham (West Midlands)

print; book-illustration

Title: Naples |
Museum number: 1867,0309.1422 |
Producer name: After:William Leighton LeitchPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1843

print; title-page

Title: Turner's Annual Tour, The Loire, 1833 Turner's Annual Tour, The Seine, 1834 |
Museum number: 1948,0410.21.1-63 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:William Miller |
Production date: 1833-1835

print

Title: Castle Upnor, on the River Medway Picturesque Views in England and Wales |
Museum number: 1894,0226.80 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1833

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1865,1014.757 |
Producer name: After:Eugène LamiPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1843

print

Museum number: 1851,0104.38 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Richard Parkes Bonington |
Production date: 1824-1852

print

Title: Landscape and Figures The National Gallery of Pictures by the Great Mast |
Museum number: 1942,0520.2.89 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1836

print

Museum number: 1889,0724.228 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Joseph Mallord William Turner |
Production date: 1832

print

Museum number: 1855,0414.482 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:George Jones |
Production date: 1852

print

Museum number: 1855,0414.528 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:George Jones |
Production date: 1833-1876

print

Title: Castle Upnor, on the River Medway Picturesque Views in England and Wales |
Museum number: 1894,0226.79 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1833

print

Title: Turner's Annual Tour, The Loire, 1833 |
Museum number: 1868,0822.4149 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1833

print

Museum number: 1853,0324.33 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Samuel Scott |
Production date: 1818-1876

print

Museum number: 1887,0801.55.1-55 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:David Roberts |
Production date: 1830-1850

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Decline of Carthage |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6154 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1859-1861

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1926,0331.49 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Eugène Lami |
Production date: 1843

print

Title: The columns of St. Mark _ Venice. |
Museum number: 1852,0214.587 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Richard Parkes Bonington |
Production date: 1827-1852

print

Museum number: 1853,0324.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:George Jones |
Production date: 1833-1876

print

Title: Castle Upnor, on the River Medway Picturesque Views in England and Wales |
Museum number: 1850,0112.29 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1833

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Falls of the Rhine |
Museum number: 1864,0611.695 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1833

print

Title: Western-Panoramic-view-of-Leeds |
Museum number: Ii,3.122 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Joseph Rhodes |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:Leeds (West Yorkshire)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.4587 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Clarkson Stanfield |
Production date: 1833

print

Title: Havre Turner's Annual Tour, The Seine, 1834 |
Museum number: 1900,1231.1312 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1834

print; book-illustration

Title: The Louvre |
Museum number: 1926,0331.51 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Thomas Allom |
Production date: 1840

print

Title: Stoneyhurst, Lancashire Picturesque Views in England and Wales |
Museum number: 1851,0308.773 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1830

print

Museum number: 1851,0104.8 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:George Jones |
Production date: 1829-1876

print; drawing; photographic print; album

Museum number: 2016,7052.1.1-271 |
Producer name: Print made by:Frederick James HavellPrint made by:B Winkles

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1926,0331.50 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Eugène Lami |
Production date: 1843

print

Title: Warwick Castle |
Museum number: 1954,1103.428.13 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Edward Richard Whitfield |
Production date: 1820-1835

print

Museum number: 1926,0331.742 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:James Duffield Harding |
Production date: 1818-1876

print; book-illustration

Title: The Welcome |
Museum number: 1889,0724.58 |
Producer name: After:George CattermolePrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1846

print

Museum number: 1850,0413.106 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:George Jones |
Production date: 1824-1852

print; title-page; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1875,0710.3473 |
Producer name: After:Samuel ProutPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1830 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Hyde Park in 1851. |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2266 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:James Duffield Harding |
Production date: 1856 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book of prints

Museum number: 1972,U.356.1-89 |
Producer name: Published by:Jones & CoAfter:Henry Gastineau |
Production date: 1831 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; title-page; book

Title: Turner's Annual Tour, The Loire, 1833 |
Museum number: 1948,0410.16.1-21 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:William Miller |
Production date: 1833 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; electrotype

Title: Phryne going to the Bath as Venus The Turner Gallery |
Museum number: 1861,0518.847 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1859-1861 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Allhallows Staining, Mark Lane St Martin, Orgar, Martin's Lane, Cannon St |
Museum number: 1948,0217.85 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Thomas Hosmer Shepherd |
Production date: 1829-1831 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book of prints

Museum number: 1856,0112.1-158 |
Producer name: Published by:Jones & CoAfter:Thomas Hosmer Shepherd |
Production date: 1829 - 1831 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1855,0414.546 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Samuel Scott |
Production date: 1818-1855

print

Title: Landscape and Figures The National Gallery of Pictures by the Great Mast |
Museum number: 1861,1214.67 |
Producer name: After:Peter Paul RubensPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; electrotype

Title: Decline of Carthage The Turner Gallery |
Museum number: 1861,0518.882 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1859-1861 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Westminster Bridge _ 1745. |
Museum number: 1901,1022.2070 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Samuel Scott |
Production date: 1852 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Bull-Ring at Seville |
Museum number: 1849,0210.545 |
Producer name: After:David RobertsPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: St Dionis Backchurch, Fenchurch Street London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century |
Museum number: 1880,0911.652 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Thomas Hosmer Shepherd |
Production date: 1829-1831

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Battle of Borodino. |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2010 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:George Jones |
Production date: 1850 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Hawking Party |
Museum number: 1861,1109.376 |
Producer name: After:Adriaen van de VeldePrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Smyrna. |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6145 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Thomas Allom |
Production date: 1863 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Castle of Chillon |
Museum number: 1875,0710.3535 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Samuel Prout |
Production date: 1829 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; title-page; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3499 |
Producer name: After:Samuel ProutPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1829 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Greenwich Hospital. |
Museum number: 1861,0810.409 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:George Chambers |
Production date: 1854 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Manchester (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The battle of Meeanee |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2218 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Edward Armitage |
Production date: 1855 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Royal Gallery of British Art |
Museum number: 1856,0510.23 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Sir Augustus Wall Callcott |
Production date: 1840 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Rescuing the crew from the burning vessel |
Museum number: 1865,1014.714 |
Producer name: After:Clarkson StanfieldPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1835 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Dogana, Venice. |
Museum number: 1861,0810.308 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Bernardo Bellotto, called Canaletto |
Production date: 1854 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Manchester (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: St. Mark's _ The Bucentaur. |
Museum number: 1861,0810.345 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Bernardo Bellotto, called Canaletto |
Production date: 1854 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Manchester (England)

print

Title: Landscape with shepherd and flock The National Gallery of Pictures by the Great Mast |
Museum number: 1861,1214.90 |
Producer name: After:Gaspard DughetPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Phryne going to the Bath as Venus |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6090 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1859-1861 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: "Temple of Peace, Rome" |
Museum number: 1875,0710.3488 |
Producer name: After:Samuel ProutPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1830 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Paris (France)

print; illustrated book

Museum number: 1871,0429.901-979 |
Producer name: Published by:Virtue & CoAfter:Thomas Allom |
Production date: 1838 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Naples, from the Santa Lucia. |
Museum number: 1901,1022.2290 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:William Leighton Leitch |
Production date: 1843 |
Production place: Published in:GlasgowPublished in:Edinburgh

print; book-illustration

Title: Loch Leven Castle |
Museum number: 1848,0304.118 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1837 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Thomas Attwood, Esqr. |
Museum number: 1865,0114.167 |
Producer name: After:W GreenPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:Birmingham (West Midlands)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1892,0714.475 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Eugène Lami |
Production date: 1843

print

Title: Vico, Bay of Naples |
Museum number: 1982,U.616 |
Producer name: After:James Duffield HardingPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: mid 19th century

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1865,1014.759 |
Producer name: After:Eugène LamiPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1843

print

Title: Castle of Chillon |
Museum number: 1982,U.295 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Samuel Prout |
Production date: 1800-1850

print; book-illustration

Title: The Welcome |
Museum number: 1927,1212.13 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:George Cattermole |
Production date: 1846

print

Title: Havre Turner's Annual Tour, The Seine, 1834 |
Museum number: 1893,0731.87 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1834

print

Museum number: 1855,0414.548 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:George Jones |
Production date: 1852

print

Museum number: 1938,1230.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Thomas Allom |
Production date: 1839

print

Title: Narni |
Museum number: 1982,U.642 |
Producer name: After:James Duffield HardingPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 19th century

print; book-illustration

Title: Café Restaurateur at Paris. |
Museum number: 1892,0714.476 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Eugène Lami |
Production date: 1842

print

Title: St John's Gate, Clerkenwell London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century |
Museum number: 1880,1113.5631 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Thomas Hosmer Shepherd |
Production date: 1829-1831

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius |
Museum number: 1872,1012.6185 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1859-1861 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: London Bridge _ 1745. |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.14 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Samuel Scott |
Production date: 1853 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Nelson Column, Trafalgar Square |
Museum number: 1864,0813.445 |
Producer name: After:George Hawkins IIPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1850 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.4420 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:James Holland |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Arch of Constantine, Rome |
Museum number: 1875,0710.3500 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Samuel Prout |
Production date: 1830 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Bridge of St Maurice, Switzerland |
Museum number: 1875,0710.3510 |
Producer name: After:Samuel ProutPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1829 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Paris (France)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The herdsman |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2363 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Nicolaes Berchem |
Production date: 1818-1876 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Alessio, Coast of Genoa |
Museum number: 1926,0331.741 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:James Duffield Harding |
Production date: 1833 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: St Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century |
Museum number: Heal,Topography.334 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Thomas Hosmer Shepherd |
Production date: 1829 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Lady Godiva |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2096 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:George Jones |
Production date: 1852 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Falls of the Rhine |
Museum number: 1866,1114.470 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1833 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1892,0714.478 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Eugène Lami |
Production date: 1842

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1926,0331.641 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:R Huskisson |
Production date: 1846

print; book-illustration

Title: The Tuilleries |
Museum number: 1892,0714.472 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Eugène Lami |
Production date: 1843

print; book-illustration

Title: Longchamps |
Museum number: 1901,1022.2114 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Eugène Lami |
Production date: 1844

print; book-illustration

Title: Villeneuve |
Museum number: 1926,0331.739 |
Producer name: After:James Duffield HardingPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1834

print

Title: Death of Nelson The Turner Gallery |
Museum number: 1889,0724.99 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1859-1861

print

Title: Lady Chapel, Abbey Church, St. Denis. |
Museum number: 1928,0430.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:Thomas Allom |
Production date: 1830-1876

print

Museum number: 1938,1230.14 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Baylis AllenAfter:James Duffield Harding |
Production date: 1818-1876

print

Title: Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius The Turner Gallery |
Museum number: 1889,0724.103 |
Producer name: After:Joseph Mallord William TurnerPrint made by:James Baylis Allen |
Production date: 1859-1861

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