Charles John Smith
Charles John Smith (1803–1838) was an English engraver known for book illustrations with a focus on topography and old details. He was born in Chelsea, the son of surgeon James Smith. He studied under Charles Pye and became an engraver who worked on images of places and historic subjects. In 1837 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Smith died of paralysis in Albany Street, London, on 23 November 1838.
He contributed plates to Charles Stothard's Monumental Effigies and created views for Edmund Cartwright's Rape of Bramber (1830), as well as plates from illuminated manuscripts for Dibdin's Tour in the Northern Counties of England (1838). In 1829 he published Autographs of Royal, Noble, and Illustrious Persons, with memoirs by John Gough Nichols, and he began another serial work, Historical and Literary Curiosities, which he did not finish.
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