# James Charles Armytage artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:28:01.032Z
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## Artist identity

- Nationality: British, English
- Common media: Engraving, Printmaking, Engraved book plates and illustrations

## About James Charles Armytage

James Charles Armytage (1802–1897) was an English engraver and printmaker active during the nineteenth century. Getty ULAN identifies him as British and English and records his roles as artist, printmaker, and engraver; Wikidata and a VIAF authority cluster independently align on the 1802–1897 lifespan. Collectors are most likely to encounter Armytage through engraved prints and book-related plates rather than through a named painting movement. Image records in the collected source pack include views titled Jumieges, Troyes, and Approach to Venice, indicating that architectural and topographical subjects form part of the material associated with his name. A secondary biography also connects him with small-format books and reports an extensive output of plates. For entity matching, useful identifiers include his full name, the inverted form “Armytage, James Charles,” and records maintained by Getty, VIAF, Wikidata, the Library of Congress, and the British Museum. Care is needed to distinguish works made by Armytage from later reproductions or prints carrying related descriptive text.

## Common works and media

Commonly encountered material includes engraved prints, book illustration plates, and small-format published imagery. The collected image records include architectural and topographical views of French and Italian places, while the authority data broadly classifies Armytage as an engraver and printmaker. This source pack does not establish paintings, sculpture, ceramics, or a formal edition catalogue as characteristic categories.

## Market and appraisal context

In auction and appraisal settings, Armytage should be compared within engraving and print categories, with book-related plates considered separately from standalone impressions when publication context is known. Subject matter can also guide comparison: the collected image records document architectural or topographical views associated with Jumieges, Troyes, and Venice. Before using a sale as a comparable, verify that the lot attributes the print to James Charles Armytage, matches the medium and general subject, and provides enough identifying detail to avoid confusing a later reproduction with an original engraving. Appraisily has an auction-record signal for the artist, but the collected sources do not establish a clean price trend, edition history, or artist-specific condition analysis. A price forecast would therefore be unsupported.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available and sufficiently documented.

## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021646
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/41772083/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6131226
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG17647
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001043303
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Charles_Armytage
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Charles_Armytage_-_Jumieges_-_B1977.14.13590_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Charles_Armytage_-_Troyes_-_B1975.6.155_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Charles_Armytage_-_Approach_to_Venice_-_B1977.14.13887_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/james-charles-armytage/