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In his 66th year, Mr. Francis yukest aquatints engraver 'and- publisher, more than twenty years resident m Howland-street, but Sate of Upper john-sireet, Fitzroy-square. He wasa native oi Manley, Worcester ; and, by dint of the utmost frugality and industry, raised himself to eminence in his profession, the art of aquatinta engraving; of which, if he was not the inventor, he certainly was the first that brought it to a degree of perfection : witness the numerous beautiful specimens he has. given to the world. His intense assiduity in' business cost him his life. Superintending continually with indefatigable attention a large body of aquafortis, in the operation of his art, for such a number of years as-he did, the efiiuviaof that pernicious acid to the human frame, brought an oppression, upon his breath, which never left him but with life. In his line of publication, he was upon the point of establishing a good exportation trade to Basil, in Switzerland, just as |hat curse of nations, the French Revolution, broke out, which blasted all his prospects of a*lucrative'connexion in that profession.
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Monthly Magazine
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Jun 01, 1812
Page 40
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