Cartographic publisher. He set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842, moving to Smithfield in 1846. The company published views of London and world atlases. He started 'The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages' in 1858.
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John Tallis
Greater London Council John Tallis, 1816 - 1876, publisher of London street v...
Master gun-founder and artist. Born at Enkhuizen in the Netherlands. After an unsuccessful attempt in 1763, he and his son Pieter were appointed master founders at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich in 177...
Artist. Born at 4 Spring Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire. He studied at the Slade School of Art in London, and at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he met and was encouraged by James McNeill Whistler a...
Artist, sculptor. Born Devonshire Street. Designer of the prehistoric 'monsters' original made for and exhibited at the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park but now in Crystal Palace Park. They were moved...
Author, historian and artist. Gordon Cochrane Home. From London SE1: "...writer and artist who produced many pen and ink sketches of cathedrals, including Southwark, for A & C Black, J M Dent ...
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