Charles Pye (engraver)

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Charles Pye Jr. (Birmingham 1777–1864) was a British engraver from Birmingham.[1] He illustrated topographical subjects, and published a Holy Family after Michelangelo.[2]

Life[]

Pye was the elder son of Charles Pye Sr. (see below), an engraver in Birmingham, and the brother of landscape engraver John Pye. He was a pupil of James Heath.[3]

During his later years, Pye lived in Leamington. A trade card (proof before engraved letters) is in the Heal Collection (Heal, 59.124) and advertises "C. Pye Engraver, No.14 Charton St. Sommerstown."[3]

Works[]

Charles Pye, 1814 engraving of Castle Hill Lodge, Ealing

Pye's engravings were published in collections including:

  • Beauties of England Illustrated[4]
  • Hunter's History of London[5]
  • Cadell & Davies, Britannia depicta.[6]
  • J. Scott and P. B. de la Boissière, Picturesque Views of the City of Paris and its Environs (1823)[1]

Pye supplied engravings to designs by William Westall for the early issues of John Poole's The Regent, Or, Royal Tablet of Memory.[7] In 1820 he published a letter, from Euston Square, on his experiments with relief etching on copper, in The London Journal of Arts and Sciences.[8]

Charles Pye senior[]

In numismatics, the elder Charles Pye was associated with the Soho Mint.[9] He worked with Sarah Sophia Banks to issue a catalogue of tokens, illustrated by his own engravings, for collectors.[10] He published A Correct and Complete Representation of all the Provincial Copper Coins, Tokens of Trade, and Cards of Address, on Copper, Which were circulated as such between the Years 1787 and 1801 (1801).[11] A third edition of this book was edited by Arthur William Waters, and appeared in 1916 as a limited edition.[12]

Pye also published Birmingham directories, and A Description of Modern Birmingham (c.1819).[13]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Conlin, Jonathan. "Pye, Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22920. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Press, Oxford University (2012-06-21). Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. OUP USA. p. 241. ISBN 9780199923052. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Charles Pye (Biographical details)". British Museum. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  4. ^ Bernard Adams (1 January 1983). London Illustrated, 1604–1851: A Survey and Index of Topographical Books and Their Plates. Oryx Press. pp. 238, 241, 242. ISBN 978-0-85365-734-7.
  5. ^ Bernard Adams (1 January 1983). London Illustrated, 1604–1851: A Survey and Index of Topographical Books and Their Plates. Oryx Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-85365-734-7.
  6. ^ Maj, Yale Center for British Art, Lec. "Britannia depicta". collections.britishart.yale.edu.
  7. ^ Sandro Jung, The Illustrated Pocket Diary: Generic Continuity and Innovation, 1820-40, Victorian Periodicals Review Vol. 45, No. 1 (Spring 2012), pp. 23–48 at p. 40. Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals JSTOR 41638121
  8. ^ The London Journal of Arts and Sciences. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones. 1820. pp. 55–8.
  9. ^ Sue Tungate, Matthew Boulton and the Soho Mint: Copper to the Customer, 2010 Ph.D. Dissertation, at p. 236
  10. ^ John Barrell, Radicalism, Visual Culture, and Spectacle in the 1790s, Field Day Review, Vol. 4 (2008), pp. 40–61, at p. 49. Published by: Field Day Publications. JSTOR 25469723
  11. ^ Pye, Charles (1801). A Correct and Complete Representation of all the Provincial Copper Coins, Tokens of Trade, and Cards of Address, on Copper, Which were circulated as such between the Years 1787 and 1801, when they were entirely superseded; a new copper coinage being at that time in circulation, issued by authority of government (Second ed.). Birmingham: Matthew Young.
  12. ^ Bell, Robert Charles (1966). Tradesmen's Tickets and Private Tokens, 1785-1819. Corbitt & Hunter. p. 182.
  13. ^ Longman, W. (1916). Tokens of the eighteenth century connected with booksellers & bookmakers (authors, printers, publishers, engravers, and paper makers). London: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 72–3. Retrieved 5 July 2018 – via Internet Archive.



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