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R. T. Pritchett R. T. Pritchett i(A77854 works by)
Born: Established: 24 Feb 1823 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 16 Jun 1907 Berkshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Male
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English gunmaker, landscape painter and illustrator. The Dictionary of National Biography comments: 'In 1883 and 1885 he travelled as artist on the journeys of Sir Thomas and Lady Brassey on the Sunbeam. His illustrations appear in Lady Brassey's In the Trades, the Tropics and the Roaring Forties (1885) and The Last Voyage of the "Sunbeam" (1889). Pritchett lectured about his travels and exhibited his work in London between 1884 and 1890. His illustrations appear in the 1890 edition of Charles Darwin's Voyage of the "Beagle" and in the Badminton Volumes on Yachting (1894) and Sea Fishing (1895). He also published Pen and Pencil Sketches: Shipping and Craft All Round the World (1899).'

(Source: Delia Millar, 'Pritchett, Robert Taylor (1828-1907)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)).

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