Skelton, Joseph, 1783-1871

found: A dictionary of British etchers, 1952:p. 186 (Joseph Skelton; etcher of architecture; fl. 1809-1850)

found: Oxford DNB online, 23 May 2014:under entry for his brother William Skelton, 1763-1848 (Joseph John Skelton was born in Westminster on 17 June 1783, and became an engraver in the mixed style of topographical and antiquarian subjects; before 1819, he went to live in Oxford, where he published "Oxonia antiqua restaurata", "Antiquities of Oxfordshire", "Pietas Oxoniensis, or, Records of Oxford founders", and S. R. Meyrick's "Engraved illustrations of antient arms and armour"; he also engraved the heading to the "Oxford almanack" for the years 1815 to 1831 and executed a set of fifty-six etchings for "The antiquities of Bristol" (1825-1830); later, he settled in France, where he engraved many of the plates to C. Gavard's "Galeries historiques de Versailles", J. Vatout's "Le château d'Eu", and P.A.E. Girault's "Les beautés de la France (1850); he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1825, but his name disappeared from the lists in 1844; by 1851 he was living in London; he died in London 25 March 1871)