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4 unusual facts about Charles Heath


Charles Heath

Charles Heath established his own literary annual, The Keepsake, in 1827, and tried to persuade Sir Walter Scott to become its editor.

Steel engraving

When Perkins moved to London in 1818, the technique was adapted in 1820 by Charles Warren and especially by Charles Heath (1785–1848) for Thomas Campbell's Pleasures of Hope, which contained the first published plates engraved on steel.

The Keepsake Stories

Charles Heath had originally planned for Scott to become the editor of the annual, offering him £800.

William Henry Mote

Mote was first mentioned in publications as working under the supervision of Charles Heath when he was sixteen or seventeen years old.


James Baylis Allen

Other works were ‘The Falls of the Rhine,’ after Turner, for the Keepsake of 1833; some plates after Clarkson Stanfield and Thomas Allom for Charles Heath's Picturesque Annual, and others after Samuel Prout, Roberts, Holland, and James Duffield Harding, for Robert Jennings's Landscape Annual; and ‘The Grand Bal Masqué at the Opera, Paris,’ after Eugène Lami for Allom's France Illustrated.


see also

John William Wright

Note: John William Wright and John Massey Wright (1777–1866) have been frequently confused with each other (according to the Folger Shakespeare Library), as they both worked for Charles Heath and their birth and death dates overlap.