Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt (1799 – 30 May 1869) was an English architectural wood-engraver.

Biography

Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt was born in Buxton

Buxton

Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, England. It has the highest elevation of any market town in England. Located close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as "the gateway to the Peak District National Park"...

, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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, the son of Arthur Jewitt

Arthur Jewitt

-Life:Jewitt as the eldest son of Arthur and Mary Jewitt. His mother was the daughter of Jonathan Priestley of Dronfield and she gave birth to Arthur in Sheffield on 7 March 1772. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to his father, a cutler...

 and brother to Llewellyn Jewitt

Llewellyn Jewitt

Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt was a noted illustrator, engraver, natural scientist and author of The Ceramic Art of Great Britain...

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Before modern photographic processes, wood engraving was the standard method of book illustration. Orlando Jewitt's illustrations were widely used between 1820 and 1870. Many of his engravings are still used in modern works and are frequently to be found in reference works covering architecture, archaeology, typography and natural history. He produced numerous engravings used for seals and bookplates.

At the 1841 census, besides Orlando, his wife Phoebe and three children who lived at Church House, St Andrew’s Road, Headington

Headington

Headington is a suburb of Oxford, England. It is at the top of Headington Hill overlooking the city in the Thames Valley below. The life of the large residential area is centred upon London Road, the main road between London and Oxford.-History:...

, there were also George Jewitt (a letter-press printer and Orlando’s brother) and Edward Bower (a wood-engraver and Orlando’s apprentice). Orlando was considered as parish constable of Headington in 1844 and 1845, and in 1855 was Churchwarden of St Andrew’s Church.

Orlando Jewitt died at Camden Square

Camden Square

Camden Square is a rectangular town square in the London Borough of Camden running parallel to Camden Road north of central Camden. Amy Winehouse and Orlando Jewitt both lived and died on the square, and one of its houses once housed the West African Students' Union. It now has a playground and dog...

, London

London

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, and was buried in Paddington

Paddington

Paddington is a district within the City of Westminster, in central London, England. Formerly a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965...

 Old Cemetery. Phoebe died on 11 March 1883.

Books illustrated

• J. H. Parker. A Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (F. & J. Rivington, 1842)
• J. H. Parker. Glossary of Architecture (Parker, archaeologist and publisher of Oxford)
• A Manual of British Archaeology (Charles Boutell, London, Lovell 1858)
• Matthew Holbeche Bloxam. Principles of Gothic Architecture
• 1863 Lovell Reeve (1814–1865), (with illustrations by George Brettingham Sowerby II
  George Brettingham Sowerby II
  George Brettingham Sowerby II was a British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist.Together with his father, George Brettingham Sowerby I, he published the Thesaurus Conchylorium and other illustrated works on molluscs....
  
  and Orlando Jewitt). The land and freshwater mollusks indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles. Reeve & Co., London.
• Churches of Northamptonshire
• Domestic Architecture
• Murray's Guidebooks to the English Cathedrals
• Memorials of Westminster Abbey (Scott)
• Books on Venice and Spain (Street)