Benjamin Thomas Pouncy

Benjamin Thomas Pouncy (died 1799) was an English draughtsman and engraver.

He obtained employment through Lambeth Palace, and from the 1770s assisted Andrew Ducarel in his researches with illustrations.

[1][2] A fellow of the Incorporated Society of Artists, Pouncy exhibited topographical views with them in 1772 and 1773; he also sent such works to the Royal Academy in 1782, 1788, and 1789.

He died in Pratt Street, Lambeth, on 22 August 1799, and was buried in the graveyard of the parish church.

He engraved the plates for antiquarian and topographical works, including:[2] In later life, Pouncy produced plates of landscape and marine subjects after popular artists, such as:[2] Pouncy also executed many of the plates for Captain Cook's second and third Voyages, after William Hodges and John Webber, 1777 and 1784; George Staunton's Embassy of Lord Macartney to China, 1797; Farington's Views of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmorland, 1789; Robert Bowyer's History of England, Thomas Macklin's Bible, and the Copperplate Magazine.