John Boydell

(1720-1804)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Boydell, John, 1719-1804 NRA: Boydell, John (1719-1804) Print Engraver and Publisher DNB: Boydell, John (1720-1804), engraver and printseller LBT ID: JoBoyde1804 VIAF ID: 59137316 LOC ID: n79056446	B/BAP: 1720-01-19 DIED: 1804-12-12
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Engraver, print-seller, and lord mayor of London (1790); in 1786 he commissioned his famous series of Shakespeare illustrations which he exhibited in a gallery in Pall Mall.
REFERENCES TO John Boydell: Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 24 December 1797 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Ponsonby to Lady Caroline Lamb, 20 April 1823 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Samuel Rogers, [21 December 1833?] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Samuel Rogers, [21 December, 1833] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. V. 1797 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XII L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ n1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter II. 1831-34. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1833 Found 1: ¶ 4