Orlando Jewitt

Orlando Jewitt
Orlando Jewitt
Birth name	Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt
Born	1799 Buxton, Derbyshire
Died	30 May 1869 (aged 70) Camden Square, London
Nationality	English
Field	Wood engraver

Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt (1799 – 30 May 1869) was an English architectural wood-engraver.

Biography

Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, the son of Arthur Jewitt and brother to Llewellyn Jewitt.

Before modern photographic processes, wood engraving was the standard method of book illustration. Orlando Jewitt's illustrations were widely used between 1820 and 1870. Many of his engravings are still used in modern works and are frequently to be found in reference works covering architecture, archaeology, typography and natural history. He produced numerous engravings used for seals and bookplates.

At the 1841 census, besides Orlando, his wife Phoebe and three children who lived at Church House, St Andrew’s Road, Headington, there were also George Jewitt (a letter-press printer and Orlando’s brother) and Edward Bower (a wood-engraver and Orlando’s apprentice).^[1] Orlando was considered as parish constable of Headington in 1844 and 1845, and in 1855 was Churchwarden of St Andrew’s Church.

Orlando Jewitt died at Camden Square, London, and was buried in Paddington Old Cemetery. Phoebe died on 11 March 1883.

Gallery

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  St Andrew’s Church, Headington (1842)

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  The Library from Exeter College Garden, Oxford (1837)

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  engraving of Vertigo substriata from 1863 The land and freshwater mollusks indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles

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  thumb|Jewitt engraving in Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Books illustrated

• J. H. Parker. A Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (F. & J. Rivington, 1842)
• J. H. Parker. Glossary of Architecture (Parker, archaeologist and publisher of Oxford)
• A Manual of British Archaeology (Charles Boutell, London, Lovell 1858)
• Matthew Holbeche Bloxam. Principles of Gothic Architecture ^[2]
• 1863 Lovell Reeve (1814–1865), (with illustrations by George Brettingham Sowerby II and Orlando Jewitt). The land and freshwater mollusks indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles. Reeve & Co., London.
• Churches of Northamptonshire
• Domestic Architecture
• Murray's Guidebooks to the English Cathedrals
• Memorials of Westminster Abbey (Scott)
• Books on Venice and Spain (Street)

Bibliography

• The Book Illustrations of Orlando Jewitt (Frank Broomhead, Private Libraries Association, Pinner 1995)^[3] ISBN 0900002360
• Orlando Jewitt:Wood Engraver (Harry Carter, Oxford University Press 1962)^[4]

References

1. ^ History of Headington, Oxford
2. ^ Jowett Variations One Name Study: Orlando Jewitt
3. ^ The Private Libraries Association Publications - ORLANDO JEWITT
4. ^ Antiquarian Books :: ILAB-LILA :: International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

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Name	Jewitt, Orlando
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Date of birth	1799
Place of birth	Buxton, Derbyshire
Date of death	30 May 1869
Place of death	Camden Square, London