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Traditional drafter at work A drafter in Portugal in the 1970s, using a drafting machine. A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman, drafting technician, or CAD technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or CAD designs for machinery, buildings, electronics ...
He was born on 18 February 1818 in Chippenham in a house now called Orwell house in 54-55 New Road, son of John Provis, a timber merchant and builder, and Ann Banks. He left Chippenham at an early age, and studied in London with John Wood (1801 – 1870) history and portrait painter.
Burnet Reading (1749–1838) was an English engraver and draughtsman. [1] Biography. Reading was a native of Colchester, and practised in London.
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 [1] [2] – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
William Sydney Graham (19 November 1918 – 9 January 1986) was a Scottish poet, who was often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic group of poets. Graham's poetry was mostly overlooked in his lifetime; however, partly thanks to the support of Harold Pinter, [1] his work was eventually acknowledged.
Giffen House The Drummond Arms Hotel, St Fillans Balmuir House The grave of John Murray Robertson, Wellshill Cemetery, Perth. He was born on 31 January 1844 at Strathord in Perthshire the son of James Robertson and Catherine Smeaton, who were a strict Plymouth Brethren couple.
Verizon settlement payments have started hitting customers' bank accounts as part of a $100 million resolution of a class-action lawsuit. Eligible customers had until April 15 to claim their share ...
Forster is known from a number of small portraits in pencil on vellum, and according to Lionel Cust they are "drawn with exquisite care and feeling". [2] The majority of these were no doubt intended for engraving as frontispieces to books, and the following were so engraved by Michael Vander Gucht and others: John Savage, Sir Thomas Littleton, the Speaker, William Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph ...