Joseph Nutting

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Joseph Nutting (1660–1722) was an English engraver, working in London. He is known for his portraits, often used as book frontispieces.

Works[]

Engraving of Sir John Cheke.

He was apprenticed to John Savage.[1]

Nutting's style resembled that of Robert White. His subjects included Mary Capell, Duchess of Beaufort, after Robert Walker; Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey; John Locke, after Sylvester Brownover; Thomas Greenhill, after Thomas Murray, prefixed to his Art of Embalming, 1705; Aaron Hill the poet, 1705; Sir Bartholomew Shower; Sir John Cheke; ; the Rev. Matthew Mead; William Elder, the engraver; and the family of Rawlinson of Cark, five ovals on one plate.[2]

Nutting engraved around 1690 A New Prospect of the North Side of the City of London, with New Bedlam and Moore Fields, a large work on three sheets, and some other topographical plates.[2]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Sharp, Richard. "Nutting, Joseph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20414. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b O'Donoghue 1895.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainO'Donoghue, Freeman Marius (1895). "Nutting, Joseph". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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