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James Heath

Also known as: James Heath; primary name: Heath, James
Details: individual; printmaker; British; Male
Life dates: 1757-1834
Address: Long Acre (address on contract with J S Copley, 26.iii.1768, see Print Quarterly, IX, 1992,2, pp. 184-187) 42 Newman Street, London (1795) 15, Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, London (in 1802-4)
Biography: Engraver, ARA, founder of family dynasty, father of Charles. Published an edition of Johnson's British Poets jointly with George Kearsley in 1802. Responsible for 'strengthening' Hogarth's copperplates for the Baldwin, Cradock and Joy edition, 1822.
Bibliography: John Heath, 'The Heath Family Engravers' 1993

992 related objects

book-illustration; print

Title: The Honble Captn Hervey |
Museum number: 1853,0112.2005 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

drawing

Museum number: 1913,0528.40 |
Producer name: BIOG31014 Drawn by:James Heath |
Production date: 1757-1834

drawing

Museum number: 1867,0413.530 |
Producer name: BIOG26177 Drawn by:Henry Edridge |
Production date: 1769-1821

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1900,0824.537 |
Producer name: BIOG47139 Drawn by:Clarkson Stanfield |
Production date: 1793-1867

illustrated book; print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1972,U.450 |
Producer name: Published by:Harrison & CoPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1880,0110.1-7 |
Producer name: After:Richard WestallPrint made by:John Pye, the younger |
Production date: 1809 1811 |
Production place: Published in:EdinburghPublished in:London (England)

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1861,0518.559-738 |
Producer name: Published by:John WalkerPrint made by:John Walker |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1865,0520.925-936 |
Producer name: Published by:LongmanPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1810 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee |
Museum number: Oc2006,Prt.188 |
Producer name: After:John WebberPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1785

print; newspaper/periodical; title-page

Museum number: 1870,0514.3028 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1782

print

Museum number: 1878,0511.862 |
Producer name: After:Arthur William DevisPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1780-1820

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1853,1210.199 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1780-1783

print

Museum number: 1880,0110.76 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:John Flaxman |
Production date: 1775-1834

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1868,0822.6849 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1780-1783

print

Title: Death of Lord Nelson |
Museum number: 1838,1110.23 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1811

print

Title: A Woman of Sandwich Islands |
Museum number: Y,6.283 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:William Ellis |
Production date: 1800-1837

print; book-illustration

Title: Johnson |
Museum number: 1900,1231.1170 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:James Northcote |
Production date: 1780s

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1889,0603.69 |
Producer name: After:Richard WestallPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1800-1820

print

Title: Soame Jenyns Esqr |
Museum number: 1889,0409.280 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1789

print; book-illustration

Title: Monastery |
Museum number: 1849,0512.433 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1820

print; book-illustration

Title: The Duke of Foix Act V Scene IV |
Museum number: 1857,0217.95 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Gravelot |
Production date: 1775-1834

print

Museum number: 1862,0614.1395 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Henry Thomson |
Production date: 1800-1820

print; book-illustration

Title: The Taming of the Shrew |
Museum number: 1892,1214.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1803

print

Title: Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esqr FRS |
Museum number: I,8.167 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Benjamin Wilson |
Production date: 1797

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1849,0721.1323-1326 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1801

print

Museum number: K,60.266 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:John Francis Rigaud |
Production date: 1799

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1876,1209.677 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:John Thurston |
Production date: 1789-1822

print

Title: Jupiter and Semele |
Museum number: 1873,0809.213 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1791

print; book-illustration

Title: The Drowned Fisherman or the moment of suspense |
Museum number: 1893,0516.116 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Richard Westall |
Production date: 1820

print; book-illustration

Title: Mary II |
Museum number: 1857,0214.275 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1789

print

Museum number: 1833,0715.57 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1788-1833

print

Museum number: 1875,0410.393 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:William Marshall Craig |
Production date: 1799

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.2458-2459 |
Producer name: After:Samuel De WildeAfter:Robert Smirke |
Production date: early 19th century

print; book-illustration

Title: Nestor Appearing in a Dream to Agamemnon |
Museum number: 1853,1210.559 |
Producer name: After:Henry FuseliPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1805

print

Museum number: 1838,0714.120 |
Producer name: After:Sir Thomas LawrencePrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1802

print

Title: James Dillenius, MD. |
Museum number: 1852,0328.12 |
Producer name: BIOG31014 Print made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1777-1810s

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1889,0603.70 |
Producer name: After:Richard WestallPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1804

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1853,1210.252 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1784

print; book-illustration

Title: Huon Encounters Sherasmin in the Cave on Mount Lebanon |
Museum number: 1863,0509.22 |
Producer name: After:Henry FuseliPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1805

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1872,1012.1636 |
Producer name: After:Thomas UwinsPrint made by:Henry Chawner Shenton |
Production date: 1800-1850

print

Museum number: 1870,0514.2790 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Matthew Coates Wyatt |
Production date: 1809

print

Museum number: 1866,0407.635 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Joseph Slater |
Production date: 1777-1834

print

Museum number: 1849,0721.1305 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1800s

print

Title: Key to the Portraits &c in the Print from Mr. West's Picture of the Death of Lord Nelson |
Museum number: 1841,0809.148.a |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1811

print

Title: Rev.d William Cooper. |
Museum number: 1851,1108.29 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Robert Hancock |
Production date: 1790s-1834

print; book-illustration

Title: The Heart of Mid-Lothian |
Museum number: 1849,0512.427 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1820

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 2006,U.1165 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Richard Westall |
Production date: 1809

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1849,0512.939 |
Producer name: Print made by:William SharpPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1772-1824

print; book-illustration

Title: Old Mortality |
Museum number: 1849,0512.425 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1820

print

Museum number: 1870,1008.2644 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1830

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1892,0714.649 |
Producer name: Print made by:James Henry WattAfter:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1817

print; book-illustration

Title: Canto XXI |
Museum number: 2006,U.3240 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Gravelot |
Production date: 1775-1834

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1868,1114.466 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1772-1834

print; frontispiece

Title: Simes's Military Science |
Museum number: 1852,1116.439 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1780

print; frontispiece

Title: The Right Honorable Sir John Eardley Wilmot Knt |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2127 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Nathaniel Dance |
Production date: 1802

print; frontispiece

Title: Margaret Bryan |
Museum number: 1852,1009.571 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Thomas Kearsley |
Production date: 1806

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1850,1014.396 |
Producer name: BIOG31014 Print made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1790

print; newspaper/periodical; frontispiece; album

Museum number: 1881,0312.406-413 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1780-1783

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1849,0721.819-820 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1782

print; frontispiece

Title: James Hay Beattie, A.M. |
Museum number: 1875,0612.360 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathPublished by:Charles Dilly |
Production date: 1799

print; book-illustration

Title: A scene in a historical play exhibited on the Chinese stage |
Museum number: 1871,0812.688 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:William Alexander |
Production date: 1796

print; title-page

Museum number: 1867,0309.1305 |
Producer name: After:Captain William BailliePrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1773-1834

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1841,0809.123 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1798

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1831,0520.12 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1798

print; book-illustration

Title: Miss Brunton & Mr. Holman. in the characters of Palmira & Zaphna |
Museum number: K,58.60 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Louis Napoléon, late King of Holland |
Museum number: 1900,1231.998 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathPublished by:G & J Robinson |
Production date: 1810 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Ruins of Athens |
Museum number: 1875,0710.2856 |
Producer name: After:Conrad Martin MetzPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1783 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.5241 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Charles Reuben Ryley |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Dead Soldier |
Museum number: 1865,1209.635 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Joseph Wright of Derby |
Production date: 1795-1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Pilgrimage to Canterbury |
Museum number: 1836,1124.11 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:Luigi Schiavonetti |
Production date: 1817 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3335 |
Producer name: After:Richard CorbouldPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; title-page

Museum number: 1875,0710.3652 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Robert Smirke |
Production date: 1810 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Hottentots trying a criminal |
Museum number: 1875,0710.2865 |
Producer name: After:Conrad Martin MetzPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1783 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; title-page

Title: Rasselas. / Chap. III British Classics |
Museum number: 1867,0713.496 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Richard Westall |
Production date: 1817 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1849,0721.1387-1390 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1802 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The riot in Broad Street on 7 June, 1780 |
Museum number: 1880,1113.3972 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Francis Wheatley |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Egan Esqr. K.C. |
Museum number: 1859,0709.1122 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:John Comerford |
Production date: 1811 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: James Heath, Historical Engraver to the King, & Associate of the Royal Academy |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4988 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Raphael SmithAfter:Lemuel Francis Abbott |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.2365-2376 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1780 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: William Robertson, D.D. |
Museum number: 1869,0612.282 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathPublished by:George Cawthorn |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1983,U.2989 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; illustrated book

Museum number: 1960,0404.1.6 |
Producer name: Printed by:C ClarkePublished by:S Hooper |
Production date: 1783-87 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Death of Major Pierson, and the defeat of the French troops in the market place of St Helier's i |
Museum number: 1873,0809.489 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:John Singleton Copley |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, Scene II Shakespeare Gallery (small series) |
Museum number: J,29.26 |
Producer name: After:Robert SmirkePrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Romeo and Juliet. Act V. Scene III Shakespeare Gallery (small series) |
Museum number: J,29.18 |
Producer name: After:James NorthcotePrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1849,0512.366 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1782 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical; album

Museum number: 1881,0312.159-164 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1780 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: James Heath A.R.A. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.3881 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel William Reynolds IAfter:Thomas Kearsley |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Capt.n Henry Wilson. |
Museum number: 1872,0713.246 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:John Russell |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Macklin's Bible |
Museum number: 1859,0312.359 |
Producer name: After:Philip James de LoutherbourgPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Thomas Morton Esqr |
Museum number: K,62.175 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:John Raphael Smith |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1849,0721.430-432 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1783 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Macklin's Bible |
Museum number: 1859,0312.342 |
Producer name: After:Philip James de LoutherbourgPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical; album

Museum number: 1881,0312.366-371 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical; album

Museum number: 1881,0312.209-219 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of the Appennines |
Museum number: 1875,0710.2862 |
Producer name: After:Conrad Martin MetzPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Macklin's Bible |
Museum number: 1859,0312.366 |
Producer name: After:Philip James de LoutherbourgPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1831,0520.60 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.5225 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Michael Angelo Rooker |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Title: Maria |
Museum number: 1849,0721.58 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1780 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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