{{Short description|French artist}} thumbnail|right|An 1871 stamp of Guatemala, engraved by Joubert. '''Jean Ferdinand Joubert de la Ferté''' (15 September 1810 – 17 November 1884)<ref name=LP>"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.</ref> 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),<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bonnici|first1=A.|title=The Queen Victoria Malta Half Penny Yellow Postage Stamp|journal=Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society|date=December 2010|volume=39/3|page=4|url=https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/69749/1/JMPS39%283%29A2.pdf}}</ref> Mauritius and New South Wales.<ref name="melville1910"/>
== Life == Joubert was born in Paris on 15 September 1810.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00095962|title=Joubert, Ferdinand Jean {{!}} Benezit Dictionary of Artists|website=www.oxfordartonline.com|date=2011 |language=en|doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00095962|isbn=978-0-19-977378-7 |access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> He was a student of Henriquel-Dupont in 1829. Joubert married Francis Emelia in 1842.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=119506|title=Ferdinand Joubert (Biographical details)|website=British Museum|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-26}}</ref> He died at Menton in 1884.<ref name="melville1910">{{cite journal |last1=Melville |first1=Frederick J. |author1-link=Fred Melville |title=Postage Stamps in the Making |journal=Gibbons Stamp Weekly |date=12 November 1910 |volume=XII |issue=20 |page=461 |url=http://www.globalphilateliclibrary.org/gplstatic/BL_CrawfordDocs/016677836/016677836_GibbonsSW_191007-191012_Vol-12.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826230218/http://www.globalphilateliclibrary.org/gplstatic/BL_CrawfordDocs/016677836/016677836_GibbonsSW_191007-191012_Vol-12.pdf |archive-date=26 August 2022}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp51829/ferdinand-jean-de-la-ferte-joubert|title=National Portrait Gallery - Person - Ferdinand Jean de la Ferte Joubert|publisher=npg.org.uk|accessdate=2014-04-29}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.photolondon.org.uk/pages/details.asp?pid=4328 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140429123953/http://www.photolondon.org.uk/pages/details.asp?pid=4328 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-04-29 |title=photoLondon: person details for 19th Century Photographers Database. |author1=Jeremy Ottevanger |author2=Museum Systems Team |author3=Museum of London |publisher=photolondon.org.uk |accessdate=2014-04-29 }}
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