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Heath was successful in business, with some serious difficulties, but in the 1840s encountered cash flow problems, and sold stock from his back catalogue to stay afloat. He persisted in trying to interest the Bank of England in engraving work, though paper money was less needed after the end of the
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From 1819 Charles Heath and then (1820) his half-brother George Heath (1779–1852) were in partnership with Perkins, working with the new technique of siderography. Charles Heath replaced Asa Spencer, a partner of Perkins who returned to the United States, while George Heath was a financial backer.
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Charles Heath believed that custom entitled engravers to make and keep a limited number of impressions of their work. When he was sued by the publisher, John Murray, in 1826, as a result of having made and kept such impressions, he relied on that supposed custom, but, in 1830, a jury denied its
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Heath received training in engraving from his father James, and his first known etching dates from when he was six years old. It was from his father that he learnt how to produce small plates suitable for book illustration. He was a noted if self-regarding illustrator of the
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Perkins and his other American partner Gideon Fairman were in the United Kingdom for a period. With finance from Dyer for a printing press, the company traded as Perkins, Fairman, and Heath. Initially Perkins and Heath used
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Joshua Butters Bacon (1790–1863), son-in-law of Perkins who settled in England, bought out the Heath interest in the company, by mid-1829. It then assumed the name Perkins, Bacon or
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existence. Then, in 1831, the judges of the Court of King's Bench held that his conduct had been unlawful at common law, though not a breach of the Prints Copyright Act 1777.
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project from 1827 to 1838. This collection has been considered a central part of Turner's opus, by Andrew Wilton, but in business terms was not a great success in its time.
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as designer. Charles Heath (engraver), and George Heath (financial backer) contracted for paper money and postage stamps with several governments. The
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for the steel engraving, and shallow lines were an issue during the 1820s. They then jointly purchased rights to the etching fluid developed by
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from 1801 to 1825. After 1828 he produced little work of his own, but his studio was productive through his pupils Doo and Watt, and his sons.
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An entrepreneur who sought out other new markets, Heath was a driving force behind, and contributor to, the new genre of the
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The heroines of Shakespeare: comprising the principal female characters in the plays of the great poet
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Paris and its environs: displayed in a series of two hundred picturesque views, from original drawings
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contract to print banknotes. He gained the contract. Heath had encouraged Perkins to come to England.
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The Shakespeare gallery: containing the principal female characters in the plays of the great poet
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and other members of the royal family. Their daughter Fanny Jemima (died 1850) married in 1839
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was taken on by the studio in the 1820s, to work uncredited on annuals. As did his competitor
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British engraver, currency and stamp printer, book publisher and illustrator
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Heath initially commissioned, and the studio produced, the engraved series
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made for Friendship's Offering annual for 1825 with illustrative verse by
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This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton
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Engraved on Steel: The History of Picture Production Using Steel Plates
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in The Literary Souvenir annual for 1826 with illustrative verse by
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and successive monarchs. Early in life he became a fellow of the
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for The Keepsake annual for 1832, with illustrative verse by
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A tour through the southern provinces of the Kingdom of Naples
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Heath married his cousin Elizabeth Petch. Two of their sons,
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In three volumes. Scolar Press, 1993. Quacks, 1999.
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The Bank of England Note: A History of Its Printing
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