José Gómez de Navia

José Gómez de Navia (1757, in San Ildefonso – after 1812, in Madrid) was a Spanish engraver and draftsman.

On numerous occasions, he collaborated on projects to illustrate the scientific publications of the Imprenta Real (Royal Printing Office), such as Elements of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, by the French physicist Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond (1787), The Ten Books of Architecture, by Vitruvius, translated by Joseph Ortiz y Sanz [es] (1787), Physical-chemical Elements of General Water Analysis by Torbern Bergman (1794),[1] and New Inquiries About Kneecap Fractures and the Diseases that are Related to it, by the Catalonian physician Leonardo Galli (1795).

In a letter addressed to the Academia in 1800, he noted that he was short of work and, pursuing his fondness for drawing, spent the summer sketching at El Escorial.

[4] King Charles IV was so pleased with them, he commissioned more, depicting Aranjuez, and provided an annual pension of 300 ducats.

[4] Similar projects followed, with the engravings done by Alegre, Esteban Boix [es] and Alonso García Sanz (c. 1781-c. 1819).