James Merigot

James Merigot (1760–1824) was a French engraver and publisher (a.k.a. Jacques-François II Mérigot, Jacques Mérigot, J. Mérigot), son of the parisian publisher Jacques-François I Mérigot.

He produced 20 aquatints from John Warwick Smith's watercolors to illustrate Views of the Lakes of Cumberland, with twenty aquatints by James Merigot (1791–5). He also did the engravings for A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity – recently executed from drawings made upon the spot (1815). He wrote an artists' manual for amateurs in 1821.[1][2]

Gallery

Merton College, Oxford; the church
William Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny
A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity, 1815
Hudibras addresses a lawyer who sits in an elaborately decorated room

References

Pearl, Sharrona (1 June 2010). About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674054400 – via Google Books.
Smith, Greg (12 January 2018). The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist: Contentions and Alliances in the Artistic Domain, 1760–1824. Routledge. ISBN 9781351730105 – via Google Books.

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[1] Pearl, Sharrona (1 June 2010). About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674054400 – via Google Books.

[2] Smith, Greg (12 January 2018). The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist: Contentions and Alliances in the Artistic Domain, 1760–1824. Routledge. ISBN 9781351730105 – via Google Books.