Joseph Grozer (1755–1799) was an English artist and printmaker. He resided at No 8, Castle Street, Leicester Square (or Leicester Fields) (1792–4) and published some of his prints himself.

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Grozer engraved in mezzotint, after Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, and others. Among his earliest known engravings are The Young Shepherdess, published in 1784, and The Theory of Design, 1785, both after Reynolds. Other mezzotint engravings were: Grozer worked occasionally in stipple, among these engravings being Sophia, Lady St. Asaph, after Reynolds and Sergeant Daniel McLeod, after William Redmore Bigg, and others. It was Grozer who gave the name The Age of Innocence to his stipple engraving of the work by Sir Joshua Reynolds, originally believed to have been called A Little Girl. The picture became a favourite of the public, and according to Martin Postle "the commercial face of childhood", being reproduced countless times in prints and ephemera of different kinds.

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[http://www.thinker.org/imagebase_zoom.asp?rec=4105201108540058 ''Saint John: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Chapter 1, Verse 23'']

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