Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

1796 - 1797 - 1798

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Joseph Heath - Bookbinder - Attorney?       1754-1820
James Heath A.R.A.                                     1757-1834

Eliza Heath (ne Thomas - ran away)

George Heath  - aged 17/18

Mary Heath (ne Phillipson 2nd wife)                1757-1819
Caroline Heath (engraver) - aged 12/13          1784-
Charles Theodosius Heath  - aged 11/12        1785-1848 m.Elizabeth Petch d.1861
Amelia C. Heath 

Sarah Heath                                                  1759-
George Heath                                               1766-1821

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The Heath Family Engravers 1779-1878, Volume 1. James Heath A.R.A. by John Heath

Collin's Poetical Works. Engraved by James Heath after Thomas Stothard, two plates - size 10 x 7cm. Published by T.Cadell and W.Davies. 'J.Heath R.A. sculp.' Published 1 September 1797 with a preface by Mrs Barbauld.

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Elegaic Sonnets and other Poems (Charlotte Smith) - 3 plates engraved by James Heath after Richard Corbould. Plate size 10 x 7cm. Published by T.Cadell and W.Davies. No.2 and No.3 dated May 15, 1797. James Heath received 20 guineas from Cadell for his two prints in the second volume. 
1. Vol.I. Girl Fleeing - dated 1 Jan 1789
2. Vol.II. 'In moody sadness on the giddy brink...' 
3. Vol.II. 'By the brook where it winds...' 

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Separate print - Thomas Tyrwhitt Esq., F.R.S. - Engraved by James Heath, plate size 13 x 10cm. Undated but a letter from Tyrwhitt to Coucherode of 1 December 1797 suggests that the engraving must have been published that year. The original portrait is said to have been owned by Dr.Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham.

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Tuesday 10 January 1797
Aberdeen Press and Journal

An Elegant Edition of Dr.Beattie's Minstrel with beautiful Plates.
This day is published, and sold by.

A.Brown, Bookseller, Horner's Head, Broad Street. Also by A.Angus and Son, and J.Burnett, Booksellers. - Price 5s. in boards, elegantly printed on fine vellum paper, and ornamented with Engravings from designs by Burney, and engraved by Heath, &c.
The Minstrell; or, Progress of Genius.

in Two Books, with some other Poems. by James Beattie L.L.D. 
Printed by T.Gillet. For C.Dilly, London, and W.Creech, Edinburgh.

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Saturday 28 January 1797
Hampshire Chronicle

The Cheapest and most Elegant Magazine ever published in this Country.
Price only One Shilling each Number.

The Monthly Mirror - Reflecting Men and Manners. With Strictures on their Epitome, the Stage,
"To hold, as 'twere, the Mirror up to Nature."

The Public are referred to the Work itself ( of which Two Volumes are now completed) for an Explanation of the Views, Qualifications, and Resources, of the Writers and for a Character of the Publication adequate to its literary Merits, the Superiority of its Paper, the Beauty of its Type, and the unrivalled and unprecedented Splendour of its Embellishments. The Embellishments consist of th Public Edifices, Landscapes, allegorical and historical Scenes, and Portraits of eminent Characters; and are engraved by Ridley, Angus, Medland, Grignion, &c. &c. from Subjects painted by Romney, Opie, Beechey, Northcote, Abbott, Lawrence, Burney, Dayes &c. 

No. IV. commencing the Third Volume of a Work which has met with universal admiration, will be published on the First of February, embellished with a Portrait of the celebrated Miss Seward, engraved from Romney's fine Picture painted for the Bishop's Palace at Lichfield. 
In No.XVI. will be given a Portrait of Mr.Kemble; and
In No.XVII, a Portrait of Mrs. Inchbald.
The Portraits already given, exclusive of Views &c. are as follows.
Frederick Reynolds Esq., the Dramatist.
The veteran Macklin, (Father of the Stage).
James Heath Esq., (Engraver to the King)
Thoms Morton Esq., Author of a variety of Dramatic Pieces, and of the new Comedy called "A Cure for the Heart-ach."
Prince Hoare Esq.
Mr.Eliston, the Actor.
Isaac D'Israeli Esq., an eminent Literary Character.
etc

A finer and more complete Series of Portraits, and other beautiful Engravings will probably never be given in any future periodical Publication. More than Fifty Heads of celebrated Characters, whose Names we cannot mention, for very obvious Reasons, are now in the Hands of our Engravers.
continues....

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Victoria & Albert Museum - Press Cuttings on Artistic Subjects - via John Heath - Vol.III
27 April 1797

Morning Chronicle ?
The Arts - Exhibtion of the Royal Academ
A fine print of the Dead Sailor by Heath after Wright of Derby, is almost the only print in the room and so superior to the few others, that it was the only one we noticed.

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The Heath Family Engravers 1779-1878, Volume 1. James Heath A.R.A. by John Heath

23 September 1797

Henry Fuseli to William Roscoe

I have just finished four small portraits for Heath's Shakepeare at 60 Guineas.
(Only two of these from MacBeth were actually engraved: the two from Hamlet were not. All the paintings appear to be lost.)
 

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The Heath Family Engravers 1779-1878, Volume 1. James Heath A.R.A. by John Heath

1 December 1797

(Note addressed to Mr.Cracherode, and relates to the portrait of Tyrwhitt engraved by James Heath for his "Canterbury Tales of Chaucer" 
Welbeck Street

Dear Sir,
I beg leave to convey you the only two Proofs from Mr.Heath's engraving that have taken off; as likewise the first, after the History added at the Request of Bishop Barrington - do not give yourself I beg the trouble to take up your Pen on my account, as I shall take an early opportunity of asking you how you do at Payne's and,
I am with sincere esteem, very faithfully yours.

Thos. Tyrwhitt
 

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Wednesday 20 December 1797
Hereford Journal

Polite and Elegant Literature - with Splendid Embellishments.
On Saturday next will be published.
No.1. Price One Shilling only (to be continued Weekly)
Embellished with Two beautiful Descriptive Plates, representing interesting Scenes, from Dr.Johnson's Rambles, designed by T.Stothard Esq., R.A., and engraved in a very superior style by Heath and Angus.

The British Classics.
containing the following highly celebrated Works, verbatim, Viz.

The Adventurer
Babler
Citizen of the World
Connoisseur
Dialogues of the Dead
Fitzosborne's Letters.
Guardian
Idler.

In each number will be given two Plates from the Desings of Burney, Corbould, Smirk, or Stothard R.A., engraved by Angus, Heath, Taylor,, or Walker, with Eighty Pages of Letter Press, elegantly, uniformly, and correctly printed, verbatim from the best Editions

This Work commences with the Ramble of Dr.Johnson: which will be entirely completed in Six Numbers, with Twelve superb Engravings; though the four volumes, as originally printed, and without any Copper-plates, sell for Twelve Shillings.
N.B. The whole of the above respectable assemblage of Classical and Polite Literature will be comprized in Sixty-three Numbers, making Eight handsome Octavo Volumes, enriched with upwards of One Hundred and Thirty beautiful Engravings. This Work being all printed, may be had complete.

London: Printed for J.Walker, Rosoman's Street; and sold by H.D.Symonds, No.20 Paternoster Row; and all other Booksellers, Stationers, &c., in Great Britain and Ireland

 

 

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