Little is known about Thomas Martyn's life and nothing about his parents, his wife and his children. It is believed that he was born in 1760 in Coventry. Later he lived at several addresses in London. At 10 Great Marlborough Street, Westminster he established an academy for the painting of Natural History.[1] Besides English, Martyn spoke French and Latin.
Worksedit
In 1784, Martyn started his major work, The Universal Conchologist, which he completed and published in London in 1784, dedicating it to the King. His publications included:[2]
Hints of important Uses to be derived from Aerostatic Globes. With a Print of an Aerostatic Globe … originally designed in 1783, 1784.
The Universal Conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known Shell, with second title Figures of non-descript Shells collected in the different Voyages to the South Seas since the year 1764, 1784, 4 vols. in French and English, including descriptions of British collections and forty coloured plates.
The Soldiers and Sailors' Friend, 1786, a pamphlet suggesting a national assessment for the maintenance of superannuated and disabled soldiers and sailors.
A short Account of the Nature, Principle, and Progress of a Private Establishment …, 1789, in French and English, an account of Martyn's academy of painting.
The English Entomologist, exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England, including upwards of five hundred different Species, the Figures of which have never before been given to the Public … Drawn and Painted after Nature, arranged and named according to the Linnean System, … at his Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, 1792.
Aranei, or a Natural History of Spiders …, 1793, with a coloured frontispiece and seventeen plates; the preface states that the editor purchased Eleazar Albin's original drawings at the sale of the Duchess Dowager of Portland's Museum.
Figures of Plants, 1795; forty-three plates of exotics without names or other imprints.
Psyche: Figures of non-descript Lepidopterous Insects …, 1797, with thirty-two plates, containing ninety-six figures with scientific descriptions supplied in manuscript.
A Dive into Buonaparte's Councils on his projected Invasion of old England, 1804.
Great Britain's Jubilee Monitor and Briton's Mirror … of their most sacred Majesties George III and Charlotte his Queen, 1810.
Williams, Nat (June 2015). "'This laborious, expensive, and arduous undertaking' : Thomas Martyn's The universal conchologist" (PDF). The National Library of Australia Magazine. 7 (2): 16–17. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
External linksedit
Harry B. Weiss, Thomas Martyn's "English Entomologist". Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 46, No. 3, Sep. 1938, p. 321.
The Universal Conchologist, London: 1789 (University of Glasgow Library: Book of the Month, July 2009, Thomas Martyn)
Plate from Thomas Martyn's "The Universal Conchologist"
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Martyn, Thomas (fl.1760-1816)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
February 20, 2024
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