- Also known as
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John Thomas Smith
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primary name: Smith, John Thomas
- Details
- individual; curator; printmaker; author/poet; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1766-1833
- Address
- Gerrard Street Soho (in 1787?)
40 Frith Street, Soho (in 1797)
36 Newman Street, Oxford Street (publication address in 1805)
31 Castle Street, East Oxford Street (in 1808)
4 Polygon, Somers Town (in 1809)
3 Great May's Buildings, St Martin's Lane
18 Great May's Buildings, St Martin's Lane (in 1810)
4 Chandos Street, Covent Garden, London (in 1815)
22 University Street, London (1833)
- Biography
- 'Antiquity' Smith; Keeper P&D 1816-1833. Printmaker and author of a number of books on London and its history, as well as 'Nollekens and his Times' (1828) and 'A Book for Rainy Day' (posthumous). Son of Nathaniel Smith (qv), and originally worked in the print trade. Apprenticed to J.K.Sherwin, then on stage, and next a drawing master. Succeeded in books of London antiquarian topography from 1791 onwards. Posthumous sale at his home, 22 University Street, London, on 23 April 1833.
- Bibliography
- DNB
Obituary Gentleman's Magazine June 1833
For his 'Vagabondiana' (1817), see D. Hansen, '"Remarkable Characters", John Dempsey and the representation of the urban poor in Regency Britain', British Art Journal, XI, 1, pp. 75-7
