James Sargant Storer

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Name James Storer Died 1853		Children Henry Sargant Storer

Books The Antiquarian Itinerary, Comprising Specimens Of Architecture, Monastic, Castellated, And Domestic, With Other Vestiges Of Antiquity In Great Britain. Accompanied With Descriptions. Vol. V.

James Sargant Storer (1771–1853) was an English draughtsman and engraver.

Life

Storer was born in 1771, and devoted himself to the production of works on topography and ancient architecture, the plates in which he drew and engraved himself on a small scale. From 1814 James Storer worked wholly in conjunction with his eldest son Henry, whom he outlived. He died at his house at Islington on 23 December 1853, and was buried beside his son at St. James's Chapel, Pentonville.

Works

For some years he was associated with John Greig, another topographical artist. In collaboration they published:

Cowper illustrated by a Series of Views, 1803;

Views in North Britain illustrative of the Works of Burns, 1805;

Views illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield, 1806;

Select Views of London and its Environs, 1804–5;

The Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, 10 vols., with five hundred plates, 1807–11; and

Ancient Reliques, 1812.

He was one of the artists employed on John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley's Beauties of England and Wales, 1801–1816.

Family

The eldest son, Henry Sargant Storer (1795–1837) was also an engraver, and produced with his father:

The Cathedrals of Great Britain, 4 vols. 1814–19;

Delineations of Trinity College Cambridge c1820.

References

James Sargant Storer Wikipedia

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