A memoir of John Carter / By William James Dampier, Vicar of Coggeshall.
A biographical memoir of John Carter, a paralysed draughtsman who drew with a pencil held in his mouth, written by his clergyman William James Dampier of Coggeshall and published in London by John W. Parker in 1850 for a devout Victorian readership. The plates reproduce Carter's fine pen drawings — a crouching figure with radiating hair, a Madonna and Child on a crescent inside a burst of rays, a profile of the artist propped in bed at his easel — plus a measured diagram of his mouth-held pencils, giving designers dense linear hatching, sunburst motifs and plain instrument drawings.
