Fitzroy Carrington

Curator, Author

1869 – 1954

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Who was Fitzroy Carrington?

Fitzroy Carrington was an American editor, born at Surbiton, Surrey, England. His high school education was at Victoria College, Jersey, and he came to the United States in 1886. He obtained an honorary College degree in the USA shortly before teaching at Harvard. His brother was the famed writer and psychic researcher Hereward Carrington.

For 21 years he was identified with Frederick Keppel & Co. dealers in etchings and engravings, being a member of the firm after 1899. During this period he made a specialty of selecting, arranging, and writing introductions for artistic editions of such works as Dante's New Life; The Queen's Garland; Rossetti's Pictures and Poems; William Morris's The Doom of King Acristus; The King's Lyrics; The Shepherd's Pipes; The Pilgrim's Staff.

In 1911, the year before publishing Prints and their Makers, he had undertaken the editorship of The Print Collector’s Quarterly, a journal unique in the United States. He continued to be editor after 1913, although then giving up his business interests to become lecturer on the history and principles of engraving, at Harvard University, and appointed curator of prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1912. While working at Harvard and the Museum of Fine Arts, He resided in Belmont, Massachusetts, in an historic revival style house. He purchased this house from the original architect/builder/owner, who built an adjacent similar home partially financed by Carrington appending a portion of the adjacent lot. He resigned as editor of The Print Collector’s Quarterly in 1917, but became the American editor of the same periodical in 1921, the year he resigned from the Museum of Fine Arts. He is the author of Engravers and Etchers and On Print Collecting.

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Born
1869
Also known as
  • Fitz Roy Carrington
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • New York City
Died
1954

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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