# Thomas Kitchin artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:09:43.947Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Common media: Engraving, Cartographic maps and map prints, Portrait prints

## About Thomas Kitchin

Thomas Kitchin (1718–1784) was an English engraver and cartographer associated with the commercial print and map culture of eighteenth-century Britain. Authority records identify him principally through cartography and engraving, while the readable biographical source in the pack also describes him as a writer and as hydrographer to the king. Surviving examples represented in the collected material include maps, engraved portraits, and historical subjects. A map of Europe published by Robert Sayer in 1787 demonstrates that works carrying Kitchin's name could continue to appear after his death, so a sheet's publication details matter when identifying it. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name on engraved maps and related prints, sometimes as the credited cartographer or engraver rather than as the publisher. Because the source pack contains limited institutional biography and no accessible catalogue raisonné, precise titles, dates, imprints, and attributions should be checked work by work.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence points chiefly to engraved maps and cartographic sheets. It also includes portrait engravings credited to Kitchin and a historical print depicting the Battle of the Boyne. For identification, record the complete printed title, geographic or narrative subject, publisher or imprint, publication date, dimensions, and any wording that distinguishes Kitchin as cartographer, engraver, or another contributor.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with the exact title, depicted region or subject, imprint, publication date, and the role assigned to Kitchin on the sheet. The collected examples span cartographic, portrait, and historical prints, and one map was published in 1787, after his recorded death in 1784; lifetime and posthumous issues should therefore not be conflated. Comparable public auction records are most useful when they match the same title, format, publication context, and work type. The source pack does not provide lot-level condition reports, dimensions, provenance, edition or state information, or realized prices, so it cannot support price predictions. Those object-specific facts require direct examination and matched auction evidence.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile's market conclusions remain limited because the collected pack did not expose lot-level sale evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3688020
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kitchin
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/37186414/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80036699
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG144387
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/thomas-kitchin/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Kitchin._Composite_Europe._1787._(D).jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Hervey_by_Thomas_Kitchin_(cropped).jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Jones_by_Thomas_Kitchin.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Kitchin_-_Battle_of_the_Boyne,_July_1st_1690_-_B1977.14.10372_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg