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John Ingram (engraver)

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John Ingram (1721 – 1767 or later) was an English engraver. In his later career he lived in Paris.

Life

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Ingram was born in London in 1721, and first practised engraving there. In 1755 he went to Paris, and settled there for the rest of his life.[1] He both etched and engraved. He engraved a number of plates after François Boucher (such as The Game of Chinese Chess), some after Charles-Nicolas Cochin, and a set of emblematical figures of the sciences in conjunction with Cochin and Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu. He was employed in engraving small plates for book illustration, and more especially on plates for the Transactions of the French Academy of Sciences.[2]

He is thought to have been still active in 1767; his year of death is not known.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Ingram, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14418. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Cust, Lionel Henry (1892). "Ingram, John" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 15.

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