John Sturt - Works

Works

Sturt executed the illustrations to many of the religious and artistic publications of the time, including:

  • Francis Bragge's Passion of Our Saviour, 1694;
  • Samuel Wesley's History of the Old and New Testament in Verse, 1704 and 1715;
  • the English editions of Gerard Audran's Perspective of the Human Body, Andrea Pozzo's Rules of Perspective, and Charles Perrault's Treatise on the Five Orders of Architecture;
  • Laurence Howell's View of the Pontificate, 1712;
  • J. Hammond's Historical Narrative of the Whole Bible, 1727; and
  • John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 1728.

He also engraved the Genealogy of George I, in two sheets, 1714; Chronological Tables of Europe, 1726; and a plate of the Seven Bishops, from a calligraphic drawing by Thomas Rodway. Sturt was the inventor of the class of prints known as "medleys", the first of which he published in 1706. His last employment was upon the plates to James Anderson's Selectus Diplomatum et Numismatum Thesaurus.

In association with John Ayres, Sturt engraved the writing-master's books on calligraphy. He engraved the Lord's Prayer within the space of a silver halfpenny, the Creed in that of a silver penny, and an elegy on Queen Mary so small that it could be inserted in a finger-ring. Sturt's most spectacular production of this kind was the Book of Common Prayer, executed on 188 silver plates, all adorned with borders and vignettes, the frontispiece being a portrait of George I, on which were inscribed, in characters legible only with a magnifying glass, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the Commandments, the prayer for the royal family, and the twenty-first psalm. This was published in 1717, and in 1721 he engraved, in a similar manner, the Orthodox Communicant.

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