Edmund Turrell
Edmund Turrell (fl. 1800, died 1835) was an engraver.
Life
He lived at 46 Somers Town, London.[1] Nothing has been discovered about his ancestry and early life. He was involved with the civil engineer Thomas Telford, for whom he engraved the 65 plates in Telford's autobiography. Turrell was elected an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1823. He also was known as an architectural engraver, and employed James Carter early in his career;[2] he may have also written his surname as "Tyrrel".[3]
When steel engraving was introduced to the art world in the 1820s by Jacob Perkins, in 1824 Turrell received three gold medals from the Society of Arts for his etching fluid, composed of pyroligneous acid, nitric acid, and alcohol.[4]
Writings
- "Description of an Improved Mode of Constructing Muffles for Chemical Purposes", Nicholson's Journal, xxi, 275, 1806
- For Rees's Cyclopædia, he contributed the article on Enamelling (Vol 13), 1809
References
- ↑ Canfield, Tess (2002). "Edmund Turrell". Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers. 1, 1500-1830: 729.
- ↑ Smith, Greg. "Carter, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4788. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑
Lionel Henry Cust (1887). "Carter, James". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co. - ↑ A History of the Royal Society of Arts, by Sir Henry Trueman Wood 1913, p 213