Thomas Carwitham
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Thomas Carwitham was an English artist known for his drawings of figures falling or flying through the air, with examples at the Yale Center for British Art (B1975.4.1055), Tate (T08118), Princeton University Art Museum (x.1976-27) and Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts (1972.96); and for scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Examples of Carwitham's Ovid drawings are in the British Museum, London (1962,0714.18), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2014.703.1), the Huntington Library (63.52.38) and several other museums.
The dates of Carwitham's life are not known but a sheet of studies of River Gods at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.799-1930), is dated 1713. His drawings have sometimes been compared with those by Sir James Thornhill, under whom he may have studied. In 1732 Carwitham married Iphigenia Golding of Hampton, near Twickenham, whose father Edward Golding (1675-1733) was "Keeper of the deer at Hampton Court".[1]
In 1723 Carwitham published a treatise on geometry, titled The description and use of the Architectonick Sector, And also of the Architectonick Sliding Plates in advertisements for which he was said to be a "Painter of Twickenham." [1] Carwitham also designed a technical drawing tool called an Architectonic Sector, to be used in conjunction with his treatise. An example of the tool is found in the History of Science Museum at the University of Oxford (inv 25362).
References
- ^ a b Twickenham Museum (2024). "Biography of Thomas Carwitham". The Twickenham Museum. Retrieved 19 June 2024.