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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RickieB, post: 790783, member: 2486&quot;]Friend and Colleagues,</p><p>Please accept this as a fill in for Billy Kingsley&#039;s Presentation.</p><p>I just finished it only moments ago and had all of 30 to 45 min to do it.</p><p>While it is a little on the vague side, it is what I could find in a very very short time.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><span style="color: SeaGreen">Charles Kennedy Burt</span></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6">Born </font>the 8th of&nbsp; November 1823 in Edinburgh, Scotland- Charles Burt while at the quite young age of 12 studied in Scotland under S. Holme Lizars.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1842 he came to New York City and began working for A.L. Dick where for most of his 4 years he worked on the engraving of Da Vinci’s&nbsp; “Last Supper”. It seems that Burt worked for all the major engraving Companies at one time or another and actually produced engravings for the B.E.P. while not even working there for a 20 year time span. He served as the President of the Graham Art School in Brooklyn, NY and was known to have painted in both oil and watercolors.</p><p><br /></p><p>His engravings grace United states Bank Notes, United States Bonds, Official Portraits of U.S. Secretaries of the Treasury, United States Obsolete Bank Notes, Stock Certificates, Stamps, Fractional Currency- 50cent note- (Lincolns Portrait) and numerous miscellaneous works.</p><p><br /></p><p>When looking for information on Mr. Burt, I happened upon this website that displays some of his works other than Security Engravings. It is a real treat to see his work outside of banknote engraving. Give yourself a few moments to check out this site. <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?keyword=Charles+Kennedy+Burt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?keyword=Charles+Kennedy+Burt" rel="nofollow">http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?keyword=Charles+Kennedy+Burt</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This link;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/imag/1994/0013/0002/1994-13-2-0005-m01.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/imag/1994/0013/0002/1994-13-2-0005-m01.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/imag/1994/0013/0002/1994-13-2-0005-m01.html</a> will take you a fabulous etching and engraving he did in 1850 called the “Card Players”. While this image is copyrighted I thought providing a link would be just as good. The works of Mr. Burke seem to be endless and to this collector of US Banknotes he is among the most revered from a personal standpoint. </p><p>He died in Brooklyn, NY in 1892 on the 25th of March for reasons I can not find.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/portraits/engravers/burt.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/portraits/engravers/burt.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/portraits/engravers/burt.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few vignettes of Lincoln and Adams that he engraved. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/rickieb1955/Vignettes/JQA.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/rickieb1955/Vignettes/5SC.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/rickieb1955/Vignettes/1928A5copy.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm184/rickieb1955/Vignettes/Lincoln.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>RickieB</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ref: The Engraver&#039;s Line, by Gene Hessler[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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