Joseph Strutt (engraver)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Strutt

Joseph Strutt (born October 27, 1749 in Chelmsford , Essex - October 16, 1802 in Holborn , London ) was an English engraver , artist, poet, antiquarian and writer. He is best known today as a collector and writer of clothing since early modern times and the development of English sport.

Life

Strutt received his education at King Edward's School , Chelmsford. At 14 he became an engraver apprentice with William Wynne Ryland . In 1770 he began to study at the Royal Academy in London and received the first silver medal, and later the first gold medal of the academy. From 1771 he began collecting antiquarian knowledge in the Reading Room of the British Museum . His first book was published in 1773. The Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England. As an engraver, he was the first to reproduce old hand-painted objects. It followed between 1774 and 1776 Manners, Customs, Arms, Habits etc. of the People of England and in 1777-8 two volumes of his Chronicle of England . After 1785 Strutt followed the next work Biographical Dictionary of Engravers (2 volumes 1785–6). In 1795 he published the Dresses and Habits of the English People (2 volumes 1796-1799). Today he is probably best known for his widely reprinted Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801). A portrait of Strutt by Ozias Humphrey, RA, is in the National Portrait Gallery .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Strutt, William, and Joseph STRUTT. A Memoir of the Life of Joseph Strutt, 1749-1802. private circulation, 1896.
  2. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The sport before the "English sport" in England and on the continent . In: Christian Becker, Cornelia Regin , Anton Weise (eds.): When sport came to Hanover. History and reception of a cultural transfer between England and Northern Germany from the 18th to the 20th century . Lit, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-13152-2 , pp. 36–54.
  3. ^ The regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England (London: B. and J. White, 1793).
  4. ^ Joseph Strutt: A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England. HG Bohn, 1842, p. 1 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ J. Davis: A Biographical Dictionary. J. Davis, 1786, p. 1 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ↑ Joseph STRUTT (Engraver.): The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England ... A New Edition ... by William Hone. TT&J. Tegg, 1833 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  7. ^ Portraits of Joseph Strutt. National Portrait Gallery (English).;
personal data
SURNAME Strutt, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English engraver, artist, poet, antiquarian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Chelmsford , Essex
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1802
Place of death Holborn , London