Charles Grignion the Elder
Illustration — Engraving of Clara and a human skeleton for Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, drawn by Jan Wandelaar, engraved by Charles Grignion the Elder, 1749. Charles Grignion the Elder (1721–1810) was a British engraver and draughtsman. Grignion was born in London to Huguenot refugees.
Also recorded as Charles Grignion I · Charles I Grignon · Charles Grignion · Charles, I Grignion
Charles Grignion the Elder
Charles Grignion the Elder · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Died
- 1810 · Kentish Town.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Great Britain · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- engraver · draftsperson · printmaker · artist
- Fields
- graphics · visual arts
- Teachers
- Hubert-François Gravelot
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Engraving of Clara and a human skeleton for Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, drawn by Jan Wandelaar, engraved by Charles Grignion the Elder, 1749. Charles Grignion the Elder (1721–1810) was a British engraver and draughtsman. Grignion was born in London to Huguenot refugees.
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He was a prolific historical engraver and book illustrator. He studied in London at Hubert-François Gravelot's school in Covent Garden. He also engraved the earliest record of a cricket match, published in the General Advertiser in 1748. His nephew, in turn, became a history and portrait painter.
Training under Hubert-François Gravelot is recorded. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is graphics and visual arts. Places of work recorded in the authority are London and England. Work by Charles Grignion the Elder is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Library of Wales, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale Center for British Art.
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A skeleton with snakes and rats. Etching by C. Grignion, 1821., 12th. March, 1821, by Charles Grignion the Elder
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- 1.Par exemple, le catalogue de la Royal Academy of Art, collationne sous le nom du neveu les gravures de l'oncle.
- 2.Nick Pearce (direction), William Hunter's World: The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century, Oxford, Ashgate Book, 2015 — extrait en ligne.
- 3.Notice du Catalogue général de la BnF, en ligne.
- 4.Basile Baudez, « La Royal Academy of Arts au , une académie royale ? », in: Livraisons d'histoire de l'architecture, 2005, 10, — sur Persée.
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- William Hunter's World : The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century. Ashgate Book. 2015. 978-1-138-54834-3.
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