Ferdinand Joubert
Illustration — An 1871 stamp of Guatemala, engraved by Joubert. Jean Ferdinand Joubert de la Ferté (15 September 1810 – 17 November 1884) was a French engraver, photographer and inventor who developed new photographic techniques and engraved dies for numerous notable postage stamps while working for De La Rue in London. His engravings were used to produce stamps of the United Kingdom, the Confederate States of America, Belgium, Italy and several British colonies including British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Malta (the Halfpenny Yellow), Mauritius and New South Wales.
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Ferdinand Joubert
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- 1810 · Paris.
- Died
- 1884 · Menton.
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- France · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- photographer · engraver
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- Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — An 1871 stamp of Guatemala, engraved by Joubert. Jean Ferdinand Joubert de la Ferté (15 September 1810 – 17 November 1884) was a French engraver, photographer and inventor who developed new photographic techniques and engraved dies for numerous notable postage stamps while working for De La Rue in London. His engravings were used to produce stamps of the United Kingdom, the Confederate States of America, Belgium, Italy and several British colonies including British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Malta (the Halfpenny Yellow), Mauritius and New South Wales.
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Training under Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Work by Ferdinand Joubert is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Library of Wales and J. Paul Getty Museum.
Joubert was born in Paris on 15 September 1810. He was a student of Henriquel-Dupont in 1829. Joubert married Francis Emelia in 1842. He died at Menton in 1884.
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- 1."Joubert's Long Head as used for the Great Britain Revenue Stamps of 1855" by Malcolm J. Givans in The London Philatelist, Vol. 123, No. 1414, April 2014, pp. 86-98.
- 2.Bonnici, A. The Queen Victoria Malta Half Penny Yellow Postage Stamp. Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society. 39/3. 4. December 2010.
- 3.Joubert, Ferdinand Jean Benezit Dictionary of Artists. www.oxfordartonline.com. 2011. 978-0-19-977378-7.
- 4.Ferdinand Joubert (Biographical details). British Museum.
- 5.Melville, Frederick J. Postage Stamps in the Making. Gibbons Stamp Weekly. XII. 20. 461. 12 November 1910.
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