George Bickham the younger (ca. 1704 – 1771)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Engraver
  • Printseller
  • Satirist

George Bickham the younger, engraver; at the Blackmoor's Head over against Surrey Street in the Strand, 1740; at the Blackmoor's Head in Exeter Exchange in the Strand, 1740–1741; in May's Buildings, Covent Garden, 1741–at least 1766 (at the Blackmoor's Head in May's Buildings, 1741; opposite the Star and Garter in May's Buildings, 1742; at the Blackmoor's Head in May's Buildings, 1749).

His address is given as "at the Blackmoor's Head, both in Exeter-Exchange and May's-Buildings, Covent Garden," in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 April 1741; and as "the Blackmoor's Head in May's Buildings, Bedford-Court, Covent-Garden, and at his shop in the grand Walk leading up to Spring Gardens, Vaux-hall" in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 18 May 1741.

Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900)

BICKHAM, GEORGE, the younger (d. 1758 [sic, i.e. 1771]), engraver, son of George Bickham (d. 1769 [sic, i.e. 1758]), was one of the earliest political caricaturists, and executed many of the humorous designs published by Messrs. Bowles, He engraved 'A View and Representation of the Battle of Zenta, fought 11 Sept. 1696,' and 'The Description of the Loss of his Majesty's Ship the Northumberland, taken by the French, 8 May 1744;' also many head-pieces for songs, portraits of himself and his father, and that of Serjeant Thomas Barnardiston [q. v.] The younger Bickham was the author of 'An Introductive Essay on Drawing, with the Nature and Beauty of Light and Shadows,' &c., 1747. He died in 1758 [sic, i.e. 1771].

[Strutt's Biog. Dict. of Engravers (1786); Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists (1878); MS. notes British Museum.]

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