The Digital Ark :: Samuel Buck

The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

Engraver, painter, and print-maker. He visited Ralph Thoresby 16-19 October 1719 along with Samuel Warburton with the purpose of taking some drawings of some local prospects. On October 19th Buck drew "a new prospect of the town from Priest-cliff, near Cavalier Hill" (Diary 2: 264-6). These drawings were for a survey of Yorkshire which Warbuton intended to publish (Hall, vii). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3850?docPos=10 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_and_Nathaniel_Buck Artist - painter
Relevant locations: Birth place in Richmond [Yorkshire], Yorkshire
Subject of discourse or work of art Thoresby's House, 15 Kirkgate, Leeds
Visited Thoresby's House, 15 Kirkgate, Leeds
Relationships: Samuel Buck was a employed by John Warburton (1682-1759)

Linked manuscripts: as Artist - illustrator - Landsdowne 914, British Library,
Linked print sources: as Artist - illustrator - Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook. Reproduced in Facsimile from Landsdowne MS. 914 in the British Library with an Introduction by Ivan Hall.
as Mentioned or referenced by - The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. author of the topography of Leeds. (1677-1724).
Linked items in print sources: as Artist - illustrator - Museum Thoresbyanum in Leeds.
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