| LC control no. | n 85250716 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903 |
| Variant(s) | Whimper, 1813-1903 Whymper, J. W. (Josiah Wood), 1813-1903 Whimper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903 Whimper, J. W. (Josiah Wood), 1813-1903 |
| Associated country | England Great Britain |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1813-04-24 |
| Death date | 1903-05-07 |
| Place of birth | Ipswich (England) |
| Place of death | Haslemere (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Engravers Illustrators Painters Watercolorists |
| Found in | Houfe, S. Dict. of British book ill. and caricaturists, 1978: (Whymper, Josiah Wood; landscape painter and engraver; b. 1813; d. 5/7/1903) Evening hours with my children, 1855: t. vign. (J.W. Whymper; engraver) Goodrich, S.G. A pictorial history of Greece, 1846: p. 355 (J.W. Whimper) The pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, 1839-1843 (some ill. signed: Whimper) Oxford DNB, Nov. 20, 2009 (Whymper, Josiah Wood (1813-1903), wood-engraver and watercolor painter, b. April 24, 1813, Stoke Green, Ipswich; son of Nathaniel Whimper; adopted "Whymper" as what he considered original spelling of name after 1840; early works signed "Whimper Sc" or JW Whimper; later works signed JW Whymper; commissions from Charles Knight for Pictorial Shakespeare and other works) Wikipedia, March 7, 2019 (Josiah Wood Whymper; British wood-engraver, book illustrator and watercolourist; born in Ipswich, died in Haslemere; settled in London in 1829 and studied under William Collingwood Smith (1815-1887); became well known as an illustrator; his wood-engraving enterprise became one of London's most successful; he also painted watercolours, specialising in riverscapes, and gave drawing lessons; his set of engravings for Charles Alexander Johnson's British Birds in Their Haunts (1862) after drawings by Joseph Wolf is widely regarded as his finest work; toward the end of his life he lived in Haslemere, Surrey; father of eleven children, including Edward Whymper (1840-1911), alpinist, illustrator and wood-engraver, Frederick Whymper (1838-1901), artist and explorer, and Charles H. Whymper (1853-1941), illustrator) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 87913853 |
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