Smith, Joseph
Record IDcnp01427726
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01427726
Gendermale
Biographical Data1682 - 1770
Last Edit2024-02-08
General Note
Book collector and patron of the arts, probably born in 1673 or 1674 (when he died in Venice he was said to be ninety-six). He used a coat of arms of the family of Smith of Essex and Suffolk although he never established his right to it. He went to Venice in 1700 as a partner in the merchant banking house of Thomas Williams. He then headed the firm. He was appointed British consul in Venice in 1744. Music lover, he was a serious book collector, with a commercial element involved in his attitude. In 1724 a first catalogue of his collection was published in Padua; a second catalogue was issued in 1737 and in 1755 a third catalogue was published together with the edition of several prefaces from incunabula, which was used as a reference tools by many collectors. A copy of this catalogue (Bibliotheca Smithiana, Venice: G.B. Pasquali, 1755) was used by the librarian of King George III, when he acquired Smith's collection as a starting point of a new Royal Library (1762-63). See 'Bibliotheca Smithiana: a catalogue of the curious, elegant, and very valuable library of Joseph Smith ...' London: Baker & Leigh, 1773
Brit. Konsul in Venedig. Kunstsammler, Kunstkenner, Kunstmäzen.
Consul britanique à Venise, Italie et collectionneur d'art. A écrit aussi en italien. Note de regroupement par domaine: Arts (sauf littérature) (700).
Italien, Wirkungsraum
Liess sich 1700 in Venedig nieder, wo er als Verleger, Kaufmann und Kunstsammler wirkte und zwischen 1744 und 1760 Konsul der Britischen Krone war.
More Information
Further Biographical Data1682-1770. Geburtsjahr ca.
1673/74-1770
1682-1770
Intellectual ResponsibilityAuteur
Primary Language(s)English
Englisch, Italienisch
ActivityPersonen zu Kunstwissenschaft, Kunsthistoriker (13.1bp) (sswd)
Kunstsammler (gnd)
Kaufmann (gnd)
Konsul (gnd)
Personen der Geschichte (Politiker und historische Persönlichkeiten) (16.5p) (sswd)
CountryItalien
Geographic NoteGB (iso3166)
IT (iso3166)
NationalityBritish
Place of Activity
Place of ActivityEngland
Wirkungsraum Place of DeathVenezia
Place of death
Names
HeadingSmith, Joseph
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Smith, Joseph, Consul
Smith, Joseph
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany; Common Library Network (GBV), Göttingen (Germany); University of Glasgow Library, Incunabula Project
Smith, Joseph
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Variant NameSmith, Giuseppe
Italian
Smithius, Josephus
Latin
Sources
Found inBN Cat. gén. : Smith (Joseph), consul anglais à Venise. — BL Integrated cat. - http://catalogue.bl.uk (2005-05-13). — Enc. Brit.. — BLC. — LCAuth. — Wikipedia: Stand: 10.09.2019: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Smith_(Konsul)&oldid=190425206
Imprint SourcesBibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii. - 1755
Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii... per cognomina authorum dispositus [Johanne Baptista Paschalio auctore], 1755
Da Raffaello a Canaletto, la collezione del Console Smith, grandi disegni italiani dalla Royal Library di Windsor, 1990
Dactyliotheca Smithiana. - 1767
Descrizione de'cartoni disegnati da Carlo Cignani e de'quadri dipinti da Sebastiano Ricci, posseduti dal signor Giuseppe Smith,... con un compendio delle vite di due... professori, 1749