James Mérigot
James Merigot (1760–1824), also Jacques Mérigot (or Jacques-François Mérigot II, J. Mérigot), was a French engraver and publisher who pursued much of his career in London. He was the son of the Parisian publisher Jacques-François Mérigot I. He produced 20 aquatints from John Warwick Smith's watercolours to illustrate Views of the Lakes of Cumberland, with twenty aquatints by James Merigot (1791–5). He also did the engravings for A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity – recently executed from drawings made upon the spot (1815).
Also recorded as J. Merigot · Mérigot · Merigot · Mérigot fils
James Mérigot
- Born
- 1760. · Paris.
- Died
- 1824. · London.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter, printmaker, publisher and copper engraver.
- Languages
- French.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
James Merigot (1760–1824), also Jacques Mérigot (or Jacques-François Mérigot II, J. Mérigot), was a French engraver and publisher who pursued much of his career in London. He was the son of the Parisian publisher Jacques-François Mérigot I. He produced 20 aquatints from John Warwick Smith's watercolours to illustrate Views of the Lakes of Cumberland, with twenty aquatints by James Merigot (1791–5). He also did the engravings for A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity – recently executed from drawings made upon the spot (1815).
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for James Mérigot. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q35158562
In this article
Gallery
Gallery
He wrote an artists' manual for amateurs in 1821.
The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris and London. Work by James Mérigot is recorded in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery, Australian National Maritime Museum and Yale Center for British Art.
• Illustration — Merton College, Oxford: the chapel • Illustration — William Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny • Illustration — A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity, 1815 • Illustration — Hudibras addresses a lawyer who sits in an elaborately decorated room
Identity
Identity
James Mérigot is recorded with the occupation copper engraver. Recorded as painter, printmaker, publisher and copper engraver.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1760
James Mérigot was born in 1760.
1824
James Mérigot died at London.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Paris.
Birth place
London.
Death place
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
authority record
General reference
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Born at
1- ParisPlace
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
Further particulars
Held on the record
Further particulars
Open the remaining particulars
The authorities additionally record the headings J. Merigot, Mérigot, Merigot, Mérigot fils and Jacques Mérigot. His recorded language was French. He was the child of Jacques-François Mérigot. Connected to 2 other published records in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
Identity and origins
Recognition and collections
Work by James Mérigot is
Auckland Art Gallery, Australian National Maritime Museum and Yale Center for British Art
Within the Encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Prints
4,138 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- James LittleEngraver
- James MacArdellEngraver
- James MahonyEngraver
- James McNeill WhistlerEngraver
- James MitanEngraver
- James MollisonEngraver
- James NaresEngraver
- James NeagleEngraver
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by James Mérigot?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.