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Joshua Kirby

Also known as: Joshua Kirby; primary name: Kirby, Joshua; other name: Kirby, John Joshua
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; author/poet; British; Male
Life dates: 1716-1774
Biography: Draughtsman and writer on perspective; drawing master to George III as Prince of Wales, and in 1761 appointed Clerk of Works at Kew; exh. SA 1761-70; President of the SA, 1768-70. Friend of Hogarth and Gainsborough. Erroneously referred to as John Joshua Kirby in earlier publications.
Bibliography: ODNB

62 related objects

drawing

Museum number: 1867,1214.768 |
Producer name: BIOG33832 Drawn by:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1767

drawing

Title: A Scence of a Pantamime Entertainment lately Exhibited |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4422 |
Producer name: BIOG43322 Drawn by:George William Reid |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

drawing

Title: Hanham Hall |
Museum number: 1907,0930.2 |
Producer name: BIOG33832 After:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 19thC

drawing

Museum number: 1969,0111.1 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Drawn by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1762

drawing

Museum number: 1967,0211.3 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Drawn by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print

Title: The Analyst Besh-n in his own Taste Pr. 1s[hilling] |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3947 |
Producer name: BIOG44905 Print made by:Paul Sandby |
Production date: 1753

print; satirical print

Museum number: Cc,3.2 |
Producer name: BIOG44905 Print made by:Paul Sandby |
Production date: 1753

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Museum number: Cc,1.177 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1770

print

Title: A View of the South Side of the Ruins at Kew |
Museum number: S,1.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; frontispiece

Title: Satire on False Perspective |
Museum number: Cc,1.157 |
Producer name: Print made by:Luke SullivanAfter:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1875,0710.3427 |
Producer name: After:Joshua KirbyPrint made by:J Woodman |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Kirby, designer in perspective to their Majesties and author of Dr Brook Taylor's Method of Perpe |
Museum number: 1861,0810.142 |
Producer name: Print made by:John DixonAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1755-1811 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: North Prospect of the Ruin, in the Gardens of Kew |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3143 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: J. Kirby, Prospectus Professor, & R. & Antum. S.S. |
Museum number: 1852,0214.353 |
Producer name: Print made by:D P ParisetAfter:Pierre Etienne Falconet |
Production date: 1768-1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: North Prospect of the Ruin, in the Gardens of Kew |
Museum number: 1842,1112.63 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A View of the South Side of the Ruins at Kew |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3145 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece; satirical print

Museum number: 1841,0809.233 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthAttributed to:Luke Sullivan |
Production date: 1763

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1860,0728.64 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1760

print; satirical print

Title: The Analyst Besh-n in his own Taste Pr. 1s[hilling] |
Museum number: Cc,3.5 |
Producer name: BIOG44905 Print made by:Paul Sandby |
Production date: 1753

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1978,U.271 |
Producer name: Print made by:William MaddocksAfter:Pierre Etienne Falconet |
Production date: 1820

print; satirical print

Title: The Usurping Professor in the Chair |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4418 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1768

print

Title: The Tomb of Henry Howard Earl of Surry |
Museum number: G,9.86 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph WoodAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1748

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1868,0808.3980 |
Producer name: BIOG44905 Print made by:Paul Sandby |
Production date: 1753

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Satire on False Perspective |
Museum number: 1982,U.4002 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:Louis Lecoeur |
Production date: 1799

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Satire on False Perspective |
Museum number: Cc,2.176 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:Louis Lecoeur |
Production date: 1799

print; book-illustration

Museum number: Cc,3.172 |
Producer name: After:Joshua KirbyPrint made by:Joseph Ryland |
Production date: 1761

print

Title: North Prospect of the Ruin, in the Gardens of Kew |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3142 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0214.455 |
Producer name: Print made by:J WoodmanAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A View of the South Side of the Ruins at Kew |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3147 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A View of the South Side of the Ruins at Kew |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3146 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: A View of the Palace at Kew from the Lawn |
Museum number: 1863,0509.274 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1865,0114.597 |
Producer name: After:Joshua KirbyPrint made by:Joseph Ryland |
Production date: 1761

print

Museum number: 1881,0108.171 |
Producer name: After:Joshua KirbyPrint made by:Charles Grignion |
Production date: 1761-1810

print

Title: North Prospect of the Ruin, in the Gardens of Kew |
Museum number: 1849,0328.49 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1880,1113.2305 |
Producer name: BIOG33832 Print made by:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1757

print; satirical print; frontispiece

Title: Satire on False Perspective |
Museum number: 1868,0822.1604 |
Producer name: Print made by:Luke SullivanAfter:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A Scene of a Pantamime Entertainment lately Exhibited |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4421 |
Producer name: BIOG194768 Published by:Thomas Butcher |
Production date: 1768 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Kirby, designer in perspective to their Majesties and author of Dr Brook Taylor's Method of Perpe |
Museum number: 1853,0112.1934 |
Producer name: Print made by:John DixonAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1755-1811 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A View of the South Side of the Ruins at Kew |
Museum number: 1864,1114.449 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A View of the South Side of the Ruins at Kew |
Museum number: 1853,1210.644 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: North Prospect of the Ruin, in the Gardens of Kew |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3141 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A Scene of a Pantamime Entertainment lately Exhibited |
Museum number: Cc,1.272 |
Producer name: BIOG194768 Published by:Thomas Butcher |
Production date: 1768 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A sett of blocks for Hogarth's wigs |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4228 |
Producer name: BIOG44905 Print made by:Paul Sandby |
Production date: 1762-1763

print

Title: North Prospect of the Ruin, in the Gardens of Kew |
Museum number: S,1.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: J. Kirby, Prospectus Professor, & R. & Antum. S.S. |
Museum number: 1853,0112.1905 |
Producer name: Print made by:D P ParisetAfter:Pierre Etienne Falconet |
Production date: 1768-1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Joshua Kirby |
Museum number: 1853,0112.1614 |
Producer name: Print made by:D P ParisetAfter:Pierre Etienne Falconet |
Production date: 1768-1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A View of the South Side of the Ruins at Kew |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3144 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A View of the South Side of the Ruins at Kew |
Museum number: S,1.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book of prints

Museum number: 1879,1109.6-40 |
Producer name: Published by:Thomas PayneAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1768 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1904,0819.705 |
Producer name: BIOG44905 Print made by:Paul Sandby |
Production date: 1753

print; satirical print

Title: A Scence in a Pantomime Entertainment lately Exhibited |
Museum number: Cc,1.273 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1768

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Round about the Cauldron go, In the Tortur'd Printers throw |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9903 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770

print; book-illustration

Title: John Joshua Kirby |
Museum number: 1873,0510.1112 |
Producer name: Print made by:William MaddocksAfter:Pierre Etienne Falconet |
Production date: 1820

print; satirical print

Title: The Analyst Besh-n: in his own Taste Pr. 1s.[hilling] |
Museum number: Cc,3.4 |
Producer name: BIOG44905 Print made by:Paul Sandby |
Production date: 1753

print

Title: Mr Kirby, designer in perspective to their Majesties and author of Dr Brook Taylor's Method of Perpe |
Museum number: 1902,1011.749 |
Producer name: Print made by:John DixonAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1765-1771

print; satirical print

Title: The Analyst Besh-n in his own Taste Pr. 1s[hilling] |
Museum number: 1904,0819.703 |
Producer name: BIOG44905 Print made by:Paul Sandby |
Production date: 1753

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1857,0110.9 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1760

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 2006,U.723 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1760

print

Title: North Prospect of the Ruin, in the Gardens of Kew |
Museum number: 1863,0509.279 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A View of the South Side of the Ruins at Kew |
Museum number: 1863,0509.280 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1763 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; illustrated book

Museum number: 1879,1109.41 |
Producer name: Published by:Thomas PayneAfter:Joshua Kirby |
Production date: 1768 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print study; drawing

Museum number: 1860,0728.65 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Drawn by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1760

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