Robert Thew
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Robert Thew
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Robert Thew (1758–1802) was an English engraver. He was born in 1758 at Patrington, Holderness, Yorkshire, where his father kept an inn. He received but little education, and for a time followed the trade of a cooper; but, possessing great natural abilities, he invented an ingenious camera obscura, and later took up engraving, in which art, although entirely self-taught, he attained to a high degree of excellence. In 1783 he went to Hull, where he resided for a few years, engraving at first shop
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English engraver
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Thew
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2022-06-20T18:15:13Z
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