John Nichols – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: John Nichols, preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The subject here is John Nichols, the London printer and antiquary, and this portrait belongs to a world where printing and literature were closely linked. Nichols ran a busy printing house and edited *The Gentleman's Magazine* for decades, and his later books on eighteenth-century literary history became essential sources for scholars. The engraving was made by Charles Heath from a drawing by J. Jackson and is dated April 1811, when Nichols was in his mid-sixties and well known as a chronicler of the writers he had worked alongside.
| Created / published | 1811 April. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by Charles Heath after drawing by J. Jackson. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Pub. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,114 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157080 |
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