George Baxter: Quick Facts

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Born	July 31, 1804 • Lewes • England
Died	January 11, 1867 (aged 62) • England

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George Baxter, detail of a pencil drawing by an unknown artist

Verona, colour print in oil colours by George Baxter, 1836–37; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 24.77 × 18.73 cm.

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François-Ambroise Didot

French printer and typesetter

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Firmin Didot

French printer and typesetter

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg

German printer

Senefelder, detail of a lithograph by S. Freeman, after a portrait by L. Quaglio, 1818

Alois Senefelder

German lithographer

Perkins, Jacob

Jacob Perkins

American inventor

Coster, Laurens Janszoon

Laurens Janszoon Coster

Dutch printer and inventor

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Peter Schöffer

German printer

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Alexander Stanley Elmore

English metallurgist

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Francis Edward Elmore

English metallurgist

William Blake

William Blake

English engraver, artist, and poet

The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.

William Hogarth

English artist

J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838

J.M.W. Turner

English painter

Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley

English clergyman and scientist

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William Morris

British artist and author

William Byrd

William Byrd

English composer

John Herschel

Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet

English astronomer

Henry Bessemer

Henry Bessemer

English inventor and engineer

Lovell, Sir Bernard

Sir Bernard Lovell

English radio astronomer

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

Lord Rayleigh

British scientist

Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.

Richard Trevithick

British engineer and inventor