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George Bickham the Younger

Also known as: George Bickham the Younger; primary name: Bickham, George; pseudonym: Cotin, E; pseudonym: Ramano, M; pseudonym: Richardson, George
Details: individual; printmaker; publisher/printer; British; Male
Life dates: c. 1706-1771
Address: Blackmoor's Head over against Surrey Street in the Strand (c.1740-1) May's Buildings, Covent Garden (1745, 1749) In an advertisement in the Daily Post, 13 April 1741, Bickham gives both the above addresses.
Biography: Printmaker and publisher; son of George Bickham the Elder (q.v.). Prolific publisher of a very wide range of prints; first major publication, a series of engraved song sheets entitled 'The Musical Entertainer' (1737). Apprentices: William Austin (1747), and his nephew Thomas Butcher (1759; qq.v.). Some prints published by Bickham seem also to have been engraved/etched by him although lettered with pseudonyms. Announced his retirement on 25 April 1767 (Public Advertiser) stating that his business would be continued by Thomas Butcher (q.v.). Died in Richmond, Surrey, on 21 June 1771, leaving his property to his widow, Elizabeth; sale of his copper plates and rolling press advertised in the Public Advertiser, 9 January 1772. Collaborated with his father, and many of their prints have not been properly identified; when there is any doubt, prints have been placed under George Bickham the Younger.
Bibliography: ODNB

206 related objects

drawing

Title: Tom King's Coffee House |
Museum number: 2006,U.3410 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 After:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1735-50

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1872,0210.219-241 |
Producer name: Published by:John WalterAfter:Samuel Wale |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A View of the Monument erected in Memory of the dreadfull Fire in the year 1666. |
Museum number: 1880,1113.3871 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Antonio Canaletto |
Production date: 1752 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Stature, Dress, and Likeness of the Rebel Lords |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13478 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1746 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Frederick King of Bohemia ... |
Museum number: 1902,1011.951 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Faber the ElderAfter:Michiel Jansz. Mierevelt |
Production date: 1700-1721 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1868,0808.3663 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Quackery Unmask'd, or, Empiricism display'd |
Museum number: 1849,1003.34 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1748 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Chevaliers Market, or Highland Fair |
Museum number: 1867,0511.54 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1745 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,80.248 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1755 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The European Mourners: or, the Emperor's Funeral With Belleisle's Progres to Captivity |
Museum number: 1850,1109.42 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1745 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Three Cherokees, came over from the head of the River Savanna to London, 1762 |
Museum number: 1982,U.3745 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1762 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; medley

Title: The Cardinal in the Dumps With the head of the Col The Preferment of the Barber's Block |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3636 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1740 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The motive, or Reason for his Honour's Triumph. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3652 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Next Sculls at the Adm-ty |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3751 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1744

print; satirical print

Title: The Pompadour General |
Museum number: J,1.104 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1759 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A Victualler or Publican Erected out of his own Implements without the Assistance of Nature |
Museum number: 1935,0522.2.4 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1746 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; music sheet/cover

Title: The Beautys of Hampstead |
Museum number: 1927,1126.1.19.34 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1860,0728.36 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1763

print

Museum number: 1915,0106.35 |
Producer name: After:RembrandtPrint made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1721-1771

print

Title: Thomas Brown the Valiant Dragoon. |
Museum number: 1980,U.1026 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1743

print

Title: Stephen Duck |
Museum number: 1944,1014.568 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Sir James Thornhill |
Production date: 1721-1771

print; music sheet/cover

Museum number: 1872,1012.3497 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737-1738

print; satirical print

Title: Scotch Tast in Vista's. |
Museum number: Cc,3.178 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1741

print; frontispiece

Title: George Shelley S.M. London |
Museum number: 1870,1008.1069 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1709

print

Museum number: 1891,0414.924 |
Producer name: After:Peter Paul RubensPrint made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1721-1771

print; music sheet/cover

Title: The Syren of the Stage |
Museum number: 1870,0514.2887 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737-1738

print

Title: A description of the illumination or fire-work |
Museum number: 1868,0612.1167 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1749

print; satirical print; music sheet/cover

Title: The Riot Night occasion'd by the Burning of the Meeting Houses |
Museum number: 1982,U.2055 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737-1738

print

Title: George Bickham the Elder, engraver |
Museum number: Heal,Portraits.121 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1720-1771

print; satirical print

Title: The late Prime Minister |
Museum number: 1849,1003.57 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1743

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1868,0808.13512 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1759

print; frontispiece

Title: G Shelley W.M. of Christ's Hospital London |
Museum number: 1870,1008.1070 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Bernard Lens III |
Production date: 1714

print; frontispiece

Title: Stephen Duck. |
Museum number: 1874,0613.1395 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Sir James Thornhill |
Production date: 1736

print

Museum number: 1861,1109.280 |
Producer name: After:RembrandtPrint made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1769

print

Title: George King of Great Britain |
Museum number: 1877,0811.625 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1721-1771

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1878,0713.1329 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1726-1771

print; satirical print; music sheet/cover

Title: The Riot Night occasion'd by the Burning of the Meeting Houses |
Museum number: 1860,0623.21 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737-1738

print

Museum number: 1944,1014.566 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1726-1771

print

Title: Jean La Tour Captain of ye Dunkirk Privateer |
Museum number: 1851,0308.666 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1744

print; music sheet/cover

Title: The Adieu to Susan |
Museum number: 1872,1012.3498 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737-1738

print

Title: Mr F_te; Orator & Mimick |
Museum number: K,60.8 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Arthur Pond |
Production date: 1738

print; music sheet/cover

Title: The Meeting in the Morning |
Museum number: 1872,1012.3496 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737-1738

print

Title: George Bickham the Younger, engraver |
Museum number: Heal,Portraits.122 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1720-1771

print; satirical print

Title: The Stature of a Great Man, or the Scotch Colossus |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4449 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1762 1740

print

Museum number: 1878,0713.4560 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Rembrandt |
Production date: 1769

print; satirical print

Title: The Fortunate Transport |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3678 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1741

print; satirical print

Title: The Ladies Lamentation for ye Loss of Senesino |
Museum number: 2006,U.713 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737-1738

print; satirical print

Title: A Midnight Modern Conversation |
Museum number: Cc,2.103 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1734-1771

print; music sheet/cover

Title: The Return from the Chace |
Museum number: 1872,1012.3500 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737-1738

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,40.14 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1770

print; map

Title: A chart wherein ... all the different routs of P. Edward in Great Britain |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13481 |
Producer name: Published by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Robert Morden |
Production date: 1749

print

Title: A View of Armathwaite Bay in Cumberland, from the Road |
Museum number: 1869,0612.529 |
Producer name: After:William BellersPrint made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1758-1765

print

Title: A View of Warwick Hall, in Cumberland, on the River Eden |
Museum number: 1869,0612.531 |
Producer name: After:William BellersPrint made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1758-1765

print; satirical print

Title: Publick Credit |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3770 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1745

print; satirical print

Title: A Taylor |
Museum number: 1898,0520.176 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1746

print; satirical print

Title: The Ladies Lamentation for ye Loss of Senesino |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3506 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737-1738

print

Title: A view of the fire-works ...in Paris |
Museum number: Y,8.74 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1749

print

Title: A Hymn upon the Benefit of Air |
Museum number: 1853,0112.1902 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1721-1771

print; frontispiece

Title: The Representative |
Museum number: 1873,0809.1479 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Gravelot |
Production date: 1760

print; satirical print

Title: Scotch Tast in Vista's. |
Museum number: Cc,3.177 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1741

print; satirical print

Title: The View of Frost Fair |
Museum number: G,8.238 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousAfter:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1740

print; music sheet/cover

Title: The Charms of Dishabille; or New Tunbridge Wells a The Musical Entertainer |
Museum number: 1880,1113.4851 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1733

print; satirical print; medley

Title: The [Cha]mpion; or Even[ing] Adver[tiser] by Capt Hercules Vinegar, of Pall-mall |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3630 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1744 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; ticket

Museum number: C,2.1609-1618 |
Producer name: Print made by:SilvesterPrint made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1770-1810

print; extra-illustrated book

Museum number: 1869,1224.604.1-591 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BluckAfter:Augustus Charles Pugin |
Production date: 1848 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,112.12 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1765 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Promotion |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3682 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1742

print; music sheet/cover

Title: Rural Beauty, or Vaux-hall Garden |
Museum number: 1880,1113.5468 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Venus & Cupid, or Love disarm'd |
Museum number: 1917,1208.2121 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Antoine Watteau |
Production date: 1721-1771 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Most Puissant Prince His Royal HIghness William Duke of Cumberland |
Museum number: 1898,0520.140 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1746 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A Monument Sacred To the Memory of Queen Caroline |
Museum number: 1912,0319.51 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerPublished by:Henry Overton I |
Production date: 1737 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside

Title: Public Credit Publick Credit |
Museum number: 1898,0520.166 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerPublished by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1745 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Haw'y Haw'y L-b-th Haw'y |
Museum number: G,1.132 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1747 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; broadside; music sheet/cover

Title: Portrait Present de l'Europe. |
Museum number: 1898,0520.143 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerPublished by:William Meyer |
Production date: 1742 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; medley; music sheet/cover; playing-card

Title: The [Cha]mpion; or Even[ing] Adver[tiser] by Capt Hercules Vinegar, of Pall-mall |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3629 |
Producer name: Published by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Francis Barlow |
Production date: 1740 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Portrait Present de l'Europe |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3702 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerPublished by:William Meyer |
Production date: 1742 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The description of the loss of HMS Northumberland |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13477 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerPublished by:W Bickerton |
Production date: 1744 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Qu-n of Hungary Stript |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3685 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1742 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; medley

Title: The Cardinal in the Dumps, With the head of the Colossus. |
Museum number: J,1.129 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1740 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The races of the Europeans, with their keys. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3642 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1740 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Evacuation, or, the Sh[i]tten Condition of the King of Pru[ssi]a |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3786 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1745 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; card; advertisement; playbill

Museum number: J,9.508-514 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerPrint made by:Charles Grignion |
Production date: 1784-1808

print

Title: Frost-Fair |
Museum number: 1880,1113.1788 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1740 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)

print

Title: Venus and Adonis |
Museum number: 1876,0708.2755 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1721-1771 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: His Majesty's Elephant, From Bengall, by Capt. Brook Samson, 1763 |
Museum number: 2009,7107.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Wenceslaus Hollar |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia ... |
Museum number: 1902,1011.946 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Faber the ElderAfter:Michiel Jansz. Mierevelt |
Production date: 1700-1721 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Haw'y Haw'y L-b-th Haw'y |
Museum number: J,1.120 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1747 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Grumbler 1762 |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4251 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1762-1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; broadside

Title: The Pope's Scourge, or an exact Portraiture of a Popish Pretender |
Museum number: 1898,0520.170 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerPublished by:James Mechell |
Production date: 1745 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Spring Gardens, Vaux-hall |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3665 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1741 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Hypochondriack |
Museum number: 1857,0613.1133 |
Producer name: After:Samuel WalePrint made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1767-1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Butcher |
Museum number: 1935,0522.2.3 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1740-1750 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Dublin orator at Oxford. but now in London - |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4135 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Published by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1760 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: King Charles the 1st |
Museum number: 1935,0413.214 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1720-1750 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 2010,7081.2490 |
Producer name: Print made by:Elisha KirkallAfter:Louis Chéron |
Production date: 1722 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; music sheet/cover

Title: The Ladies Lamentation for ye Loss of Senesino |
Museum number: K,64.19 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1737-1738

print

Museum number: 1857,0520.350 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1730-1770

print

Title: Charles Lewis Augustus Foucquet de Belle-Isle... |
Museum number: 1944,1014.526 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Hyacinthe Rigaud |
Production date: 1740-1770

print; satirical print

Title: The Rake's Rendez-Vous; or the Midnight revels wherein are delineated the various humours of Tom Kin |
Museum number: 1860,0623.35 |
Producer name: BIOG19579 Print made by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1735-1740

print

Title: A View of the Queen's Theatre from the Rotundo |
Museum number: 1872,0413.334 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Bickham the YoungerAfter:Jean Baptiste Chatelain |
Production date: 1753

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