# John Emes

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[[File:Bottle Ticket (Kyan) LACMA M.62.41.14f.jpg|thumb|Silver bottle ticket (reading "Kyan") made by John Emes between 1780 and 1810; [Los Angeles County Museum of Art](/source/Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art)]]

'''John Emes''' (1762–1810) was a British engraver and watercolour painter. His wife [Rebecca Emes](/source/Rebecca_Emes) ran a successful silver business after his death.<ref name=odnb>Anne Pimlott Baker, 'Emes, John (1762–1808)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8788, accessed 15 Sept 2013]</ref>

==Life==
Emes was born on 30 December 1762 to [William Emes](/source/William_Emes), a landscape gardener from [Mackworth](/source/Mackworth%2C_Amber_Valley) near Derby.<ref name=odnb/>

He is best known by his engraving of the picture by [James Jefferys](/source/James_Jefferys) of ''The Destruction of the Spanish Batteries before Gibraltar''. The etching for this is dated 1786, and as it was published in October 1789 by Emes and Elizabeth Woollett, widow of [William Woollett](/source/William_Woollett) it is possible that it was begun by Woollett. Emes was also a water-colour painter, and executed tinted drawings of views in the [Lake District](/source/Lake_District) and elsewhere, some of which he exhibited at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) in 1790 and 1791.

There are three water-colour drawings by Emes in the Print Room at the [British Museum](/source/British_Museum), one being a large drawing representing 'The Meeting of the [Royal Society of British Archers](/source/Royal_Society_of_British_Archers) in Gwersylt Park, Denbighshire;’ the figures in this are drawn by R. Smirke, R.A., and it was afterwards engraved in aquatint by [C. Apostool](/source/C._Apostool). A set of sixteen views of the lakes in Cumberland and Westmoreland, drawn by J. Smith and J. Emes, were engraved in aquatint by [S. Alken](/source/S._Alken); these were incorporated into [Thomas West](/source/Thomas_West_(priest))'s ''Guide to the Lakes''. Emes also engraved some views of Dorsetshire. His collection of prints was sold on 22 March 1810, after his death.

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