Gender:
Male
Date and place of birth:
Presumed, 1818, Leeds, Yorkshire
Date and place of death:
dec. 06.02.1899, Southport,Lancashire
Worked:
(fl) ca. 1850-ca.1860s
Known places of work:
Manchester,Scarborough, Southport
Known techniques:
Cut-work
Known materials:
Paper and card
Frames:
Unrecorded
Signature:
Unrecorded
Introduction:
Known only through an entry in Jackson’s ‘Dictionary’, who identifies Blackburn as a cutter working from King Street, Manchester around 1850. Nothing else is known of his life and no examples of his work have yet been discovered.
Additional research about Joseph Blackburne:
Source: McKechnie (Author of, British Silhouette Artists and their Work 1760-1860)
Blackburne, Joseph (McKechnie Section 1)