Thomas Cross, son, (
fl.
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1683 – 1732) was an
English
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engraver and
printmaking
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artist who worked extensively with music printing in the latter half of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century.
He is mainly known for his exquisite music engravings and for being the first to issue sheet music from plates.
His first known work in the field of music was for
Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: ; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, ''Dido and Aeneas''; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's ...
's ''Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts'' (c. 1680).
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English engravers
17th-century English artists
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