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etchings, by which he is best known, were in general issued and sold individually. His preparations for them, at first showing particular attention to
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as an instructor in drawing and sketching from nature, and in the production of his own watercolours and etchings. Between 1823 and 1827 he issued a
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and soon settled in Globe Street (now renamed St George's Street), from which address the large body of his subsequent etchings down to the 1860s were usually dated. His first years in
Ipswich were difficult, and in 1833 he sold many of his books, plates and other possessions by auction. His later
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