Fitzroy Carrington (1869-1954) was an American editor, born at Surbiton, Surrey, England. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, and came to the United States in 1886. Surbiton is a suburban area of London situated in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. ... Not to be confused with Surry. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Victoria College is a fee-paying States of Jersey boys school in St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. ...

For 21 years (1892-1913) he was identified with Frederick Keppel & Co. (New York) dealers in etchings and engravings, being a member of the firm after 1899. During this period he made a specialty of selecting, arranging, and writing introductions for artistic editions of such works as Dante's New Life; The Queen's Garland (Elizabethan verse); Rosetti's Pictures and Poems; William Morris's The Doom of King Acristus; The King's Lyrics (1899); The Shepherd's Pipes (1903); The Pilgrim's Staff (1906). Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... For uses in micro-electronics, see Etching (chemical), for the history of the method, see old master prints. ... Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. ... Dante in a fresco series of famous men by Andrea del Castagno, ca. ... Dante Gabriel Rossetti (May 12, 1828 - April 10, 1882) was an English poet, painter and translator. ... William Morris, socialist and innovator in the Arts and Crafts movement William Morris, publisher Davids Charge to Solomon (1882), a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris in Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. ...

In 1911, the year before publishing Prints and their Makers, he had undertaken the editorship of the Print-Collector's Quarterly, a journal unique in the United States. He continued to be editor after 1913, although then giving up his business interests to become lecturer on the history and principles of engraving, at Harvard University, and curator of prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He resigned as editor of the Print Collector's Quarterly in 1917, but became the American editor of the same periodical in 1921. He is the author of Engravers and Etchers (Scammon Lectures, 1921) and On Print Collecting (1929). Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1636,[1] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning still operating in the United States. ... A curator of a cultural heritage institution (e. ... Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (Doù venons-nous? Que faisons-nous? Où allons-nous?) (1897). ...

External links

• New York Public Library catalog listing for "On Print Collecting" (source for death year)

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