Francis Eginton
Illustration — Filial piety (1796) Francis Eginton (Birmingham 1775 – 1823 near Newport, Shropshire) was an English engraver.
Francis Eginton
EGINTON, FRANCIS, THE YOUNGER · Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (GMII) · Public domain
- Died
- 1823.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom.
- Occupation
- engraver.
- Languages
- English.
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Illustration — Filial piety (1796) Francis Eginton (Birmingham 1775 – 1823 near Newport, Shropshire) was an English engraver.
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Eginton was the son of John Eginton, a noted stipple engraver and a nephew of Francis Eginton. He was born in Birmingham in 1775, and died in 1823 at Meertown House, near Newport, Shropshire, aged 48. Eginton's work as an engraver was distinguished by accuracy and taste. He illustrated Stebbing Shaw's History of Staffordshire, John Price's histories of Leominster (1795) and Hereford (1796), Robert Bell Wheler's History and Antiquities of Stratford-on-Avon, James Bisset's Picturesque Birmingham Guide, Pratt's Leamington Guide, Thomas Howell's Stranger in Shrewsbury, and most of the topographical and historical works published in the Midlands during his time. A large plate of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct was one of his most notable works. As a person, Eginton was described as a 'cheerful and gentlemanly companion, and much respected.'
Engraving by Francis Eginton from a drawing by Robert Bell Wheler published in Wheler's History and Antiquities of Stratford-upon-Avon in 1806.
Francis Eginton (engraver) · History and Antiquities of Stratford-upon-Avon by Robert Bell Wheler (1806)
Page from 'Bisset's Magnificent Guide or Grand Copper Plate Directory for the Town of Birmingham' (1808), by James Bisset. Engraved by Francis Eginton.
James Bisset · 'Bisset's Magnificent Guide' (1808 edition)
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1775
Francis Eginton born at Birmingham.
1823
Francis Eginton died.
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- Eginton, Francis (1775–1823), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018
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