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| name = Josiah Wood Whymper | image = Whymper, Josiah Wood (1813-1903) (after a work by Harry Fenn) - Etna. From the theatre Taormina, 1878.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Engraving by Whymper: View from the Ancient Greek Theatre at Taormina | birth_name = | birth_date = 24 April 1813 | birth_place = Ipswich | death_date = 7 April 1903 | death_place = Haslemere | nationality = English | spouse = | field = Wood engraving, illustration, watercolour | training = William Collingwood Smith | movement = | works = Engravings for British Birds in their Haunts | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = Charles Samuel Keene John William North George John Pinwell Frederick Walker | awards = | elected = New Society of Painters in Water Colours | website = | bgcolour = }} Josiah Wood Whymper {{Post-nominals|post-noms=RI}} (Ipswich 24 April 1813 – 7 April 1903 Haslemere) was a British wood-engraver, book illustrator and watercolourist. Early life and educationBorn the son of a brewer, Whymper was apprenticed to a stonemason. He soon turned to drawing and painting, settled in London in 1829 and studied under William Collingwood Smith (1815–1887).[1] Career as illustratorAfter having an etching of London Bridge published, he became well known as an illustrator and worked for Black, John Murray, Cassell and other publishers. His wood-engraving enterprise became one of London's most successful. He also painted watercolours, specialising in riverscapes, and gave drawing classes to pupils such as Charles Keene (1823–1891), John William North (1842–1924), George John Pinwell (1842–1875) and Frederick Walker (1840–1875).[1] He also produced fine engravings of animals, fish, landscapes and wonders of the world for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, sold for 3/4d penny plain, 2d pence coloured. In 1846 Whymper made thirty engravings about dramatic natural phenomena such as the aurora borealis, whirlpools and icebergs. [2] Whymper exhibited in the London and Provincial Galleries and was elected an associate of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1854, becoming a full member in 1857. Whymper's set of engravings for Charles Alexander Johns's British Birds in Their Haunts (1862) after drawings by Joseph Wolf is widely regarded as his finest work. He made some of the engravings for Henry Walter Bates's 1863 The Naturalist on the River Amazons. He also produced the wood engravings for the Life and Habits of Wild Animals (1873–74) with the help of his sons Charles, Frederick and Edward, and provided illustrations for Joseph Dalton Hooker's Himalayan Journals (1854) and David Livingstone's Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi (1865). He was in charge of the illustrations for Picturesque Europe (1875). Family and later lifeWhymper was the father of eleven children including Edward Whymper (1840–1911), the alpinist, illustrator and wood-engraver, who made the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 and engraved the illustrations for Howard Willoughby's Australian Pictures (1886).[1] Other sons were Frederick Whymper (1838–1901), an artist and explorer, and Charles H. Whymper (1853–1941), who provided illustrations for books on travel, sport and natural history, including an edition of William Yarrell's A History of British Birds (1871–89) and the Birds of Egypt (1909). Toward the end of his life he lived in Haslemere in Surrey, where he died in 1903. Examples of Whymper's work may be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. References1. ^1 2 {{cite web | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/04/08/105051872.pdf | title=Death List of a Day: Josiah Wood Whymper | publisher=New York Times | date=7 April 1903}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Whymper, Josiah Wood}}2. ^Whymper, Josiah. (1846). Thirty Plates illustrative of Natural Phenomena [Engravings]. Retrieved from https://www.finerareprints.com/josiah-wood-whymper-antique-prints 9 : 1813 births|1903 deaths|English engravers|English illustrators|19th-century English painters|English male painters|20th-century English painters|Natural history illustrators|20th-century British printmakers |
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