Cosmo Armstrong
Cosmo Armstrong (1771–1847), was an English line-engraver. He was the son of John Armstrong and apprenticed to John Gyde, citizen and loriner 6 June 1787. Armstrong was a pupil of Thomas Milton, the landscape-engraver.
Cosmo Armstrong
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- Kingdom of Great Britain and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Occupation
- engraver and graphic artist.
- Languages
- English.
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He was a governor of the Society of Engravers, and he exhibited with the Associated Engravers in 1821. He engraved some plates for Cooke's edition of the British Poets, Sharpe's edition of the British Classics, Kearsley's edition of Shakespeare, Suttaby's edition of the British Classics, Allason's Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Pola, 1819, and the Ancient Marbles in the British Museum. Among his other works may be noticed Camaralzaman and Badoura and The Sleeper awakened, after Robert Smirke, for Miller's edition of the Arabian Nights, published in 1802; Don Quixote's Combat with the Giant Malumbruno, also after Smirke, for Cadell's edition of Don Quixote, issued in 1818; and small portraits of Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Charles I, after Van Dyck, Lord Byron, after Thomas Phillips, and George IV, after Sir Thomas Lawrence. He was buried at St Pancras 16 November 1847 aged 76.
Cosmo Armstrong is recorded as engraver and graphic artist.
Documentary record
Cosmo Armstrong was a copperplate engraver and graphic artist, born in 1781 in Birmingham and died in 1836. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek records London as a place of activity.
John Shebbeare. Line engraving by C. Armstrong, 1795., 1795, by Cosmo Armstrong
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Life and career
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1781
Cosmo Armstrong born at Birmingham.
1836
Cosmo Armstrong died.
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scholarly publication
- Armstrong, Cosmo (1771/2–1847), engraver, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2004
- Armstrong, Cosmo (fl 1800–1836), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2018
Institutional database
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5174243: Cosmo Armstrong
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- “Cosmo Armstrong”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
Armstrong, Cosmo (1771/2–1847), engraver, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004Crossref registry
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q5174243: Cosmo ArmstrongWikimedia Foundation
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