Letitia Byrne


Letitia Byrne was a British engraver.

Life

She was born on 24 November 1779, presumably in London, being the third daughter of William Byrne, engraver, and the sister of Anne Frances Byrne. As a pupil of her father, she exhibited landscape-views at the Academy when she was only twenty, in 1799.
In 1810 she etched the illustrations for A Description of Tunbridge Wells and four views for Hakewill's History of Windsor. She exhibited From Eton College Play-fields at the Academy in 1822; and had other pictures there down to 1848. Her work was included in Cadell & Davies Britannia depicta
She died 2 May 1849, aged 70, and was buried at Kensal Green.