| LC control no. | n 80035861 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739 |
| Variant(s) | Jarvis, Charles, 1675?-1739 |
| Associated country | Ireland |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1675~ |
| Death date | 1739 |
| Field of activity | Portrait painting Art--Collectors and collecting Translating and interpreting |
| Profession or occupation | Portrait painters Art--Collectors and collecting Translators |
| Found in | The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1742: title page (Translated ... by Charles Jarvis [sic]) Wikipedia, August 4, 2016 (Charles Jervas (or Charles Jarvis; c. 1675 - 1739) was an Irish portrait painter, translator, and art collector of the early 18th century ; he travelled [in 1699] to Paris and Rome, remaining there for most of the decade before returning to London in 1709 where he found success as a portrait painter ; his translation of Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, published posthumously in 1742 as being made by Charles "Jarvis" - because of a printer's error - has since come to be known as "the Jarvis translation") |
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