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Moxham, Egbert
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Person (Male)
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- Amateur
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Life dates
Thornbury [Gloucestershire, GB], 1824 - London - Greenwich [GB], 1864
Activity
1857 * - 1862 / Bruges
+ September 1864. Artist and sometime inventor. Originally from Gloucester, he made the drawings published in "Specimens of Inlaid Tiles from Neath Abbey, Glamorganshire", 1849-1850. Still in Neath in September 1856, he proposed a variation of Taupenot's dry-plate collodion process (Journal of the Photographic Society of London, 1856, p. 127). Moxham moved with his family to Bruges in 1857, arriving at St-Jacobsstraat, 30 on 14.10.1857. The family moved to Steenhouwersdijk, 5 on 18.1.1859. Recorded as a person of independent means when registering the birth of a son Edgar on 25.2.1859.
Half-plate views of Bruges, Sluis and Ghent. English patent of 31.5.1859 for "improvements in the construction of stereoscopes". Stereo view "The Canal, Quay, and Maison des Bateliers, Ghent" published in "The Stereoscopic Cabinet", no. 2, December 1859 and in "The Stereoscopic Magazine", vol. 3, 1861-1862. Moxham left Bruges to return to Great Britain shortly before 11.2.1862, the date on which the next occupant moved into the house in Steenhouwersdijk. Moxham's stereo patent was voided on 6.6.1862 "because of non-payment of additional stamp duty of £50 before expiration of 3rd year from date of patent".
+ September 1864. Artist and sometime inventor. Originally from Gloucester, he made the drawings published in "Specimens of Inlaid Tiles from Neath Abbey, Glamorganshire", 1849-1850. Still in Neath in September 1856, he proposed a variation of Taupenot's dry-plate collodion process (Journal of the Photographic Society of London, 1856, p. 127). Moxham moved with his family to Bruges in 1857, arriving at St-Jacobsstraat, 30 on 14.10.1857. The family moved to Steenhouwersdijk, 5 on 18.1.1859. Recorded as a person of independent means when registering the birth of a son Edgar on 25.2.1859.
Half-plate views of Bruges, Sluis and Ghent. English patent of 31.5.1859 for "improvements in the construction of stereoscopes". Stereo view "The Canal, Quay, and Maison des Bateliers, Ghent" published in "The Stereoscopic Cabinet", no. 2, December 1859 and in "The Stereoscopic Magazine", vol. 3, 1861-1862. Moxham left Bruges to return to Great Britain shortly before 11.2.1862, the date on which the next occupant moved into the house in Steenhouwersdijk. Moxham's stereo patent was voided on 6.6.1862 "because of non-payment of additional stamp duty of £50 before expiration of 3rd year from date of patent".
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1857 * - 1862 / Bruges
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Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#0995
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 9.12.2018; revised 12.5.2019 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 24.10.2019 based on information supplied by Pool Andries; SFJ revised 20.10.2022 based on information supplied by Jos Demarée (emails dated 15.10.2022 and 17.10.2022)