Ferdinand Joubert
Jean Ferdinand Joubert de la Ferté (15 September 1810 – 17 November 1884)[1] was a French engraver, photographer and inventor who developed new photographic techniques and engraved dies for numerous notable postage stamps while working for De La Rue in London. His engravings were used to produce stamps of the United Kingdom, the Confederate States of America, Belgium, Italy and several British colonies including British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Malta (the Halfpenny Yellow),[2] Mauritius and New South Wales.[3]
Life
[edit]Joubert was born in Paris on 15 September 1810.[4] He was a student of Henriquel-Dupont in 1829. Joubert married Francis Emelia in 1842.[5] He died at Menton in 1884.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Joubert's Long Head as used for the Great Britain Revenue Stamps of 1855" by Malcolm J. Givans in The London Philatelist, Vol. 123, No. 1414, April 2014, pp. 86-98.
- ↑ Bonnici, A. (December 2010). "The Queen Victoria Malta Half Penny Yellow Postage Stamp" (PDF). Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society. 39/3: 4.
- 1 2 Melville, Frederick J. (12 November 1910). "Postage Stamps in the Making" (PDF). Gibbons Stamp Weekly. XII (20): 461. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2022.
- ↑ "Joubert, Ferdinand Jean | Benezit Dictionary of Artists". www.oxfordartonline.com. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00095962. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ↑ "Ferdinand Joubert (Biographical details)". British Museum. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
External links
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- "National Portrait Gallery - Person - Ferdinand Jean de la Ferte Joubert". npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
- Jeremy Ottevanger; Museum Systems Team; Museum of London. "photoLondon: person details for 19th Century Photographers Database". photolondon.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
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