- Also known as
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John Girtin
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primary name: Girtin, John
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erroneously recorded as James Girtin: Girtin, James
- Details
- individual; printmaker; publisher/printer; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1773-1820 after
- Address
- 6 Long Acre (1791-99)
56 Drury Lane (1800? - see Heal,132.127)
8 Charles Street, Berners Street, London (1808-09)
8 Charles Street, Midd Hospital, London (1809)
Charles Street, Soho Square, London (1810-11)
330 Oxford Street, London (in 1813-14)
Broad Street, Soho (c.1815-1816)
25 Old Compton Street, 3 doors from Princes Street, Soho (1817)
- Biography
- Engraver, etcher and printer; erroneously called James Girtin on the title page of 'Seventy-five portraits of celebrated painters' (1817) and subsequently, but Greg Smith has shown that his name was actually John. Brother of Thomas, whose series of Parisian views he published. Stock burnt in fire in Broad Street, November 1816. No trace after 1820.
Trade cards:
"Girtin Engraver, 6 Long Acre Near St. Martin's Lane. Fac-similes accurately Executeed, Arms, Crests, Cyphers, &c. &c." (Banks collection, D,2.2185)
"Girtin, Engraver & Printer, 25 Old Compton Street, Princes Street, Soho. Burnt out from Broad St. Cards, Bills, &c.Maps, Plans, Botany, Geology & other objects. manuscripts antient or modern, ___(illegible), Francois [sic] et toute autre langue."(Banks,59.75).
Trade card in Banks Collection (D,2.3837) has Girtin as engraver at Little Newport Street, London
- Bibliography
- Dates according to Saur
Greg Smith, 'Girtin v. Girtin: new information on Thomas Girtin's panorama of London and his 'Picturesque Views in Paris' (British Art Journal, Winter 2017/18)
