Joseph Nutting
Joseph Nutting (1660–1722) was an English engraver, working in London. He is known for his portraits, often used as book frontispieces.
Works
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He was apprenticed to John Savage.[1]
Nutting's style resembled that of Robert White. His subjects included Mary Capell, Duchess of Beaufort, after Robert Walker; Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey; John Locke, after Sylvester Brownover; Thomas Greenhill, after Thomas Murray, prefixed to his Art of Embalming, 1705; Aaron Hill the poet, 1705; Sir Bartholomew Shower; Sir John Cheke; James Bonnell; the Rev. Matthew Mead; William Elder, the engraver; and the family of Rawlinson of Cark, five ovals on one plate.[2]
Nutting engraved around 1690 A New Prospect of the North Side of the City of London, with New Bedlam and Moore Fields, a large work on three sheets, and some other topographical plates.[2]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Sharp, Richard. "Nutting, Joseph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20414. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b O'Donoghue, Freeman Marius (1895). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
