(b Manchester, 26 Nov 1808; d London, 28 May 1886). English engraver. The son of a cordwainer, he was apprenticed to John Fothergill ( fl 1820-30) but in 1829 went to work for William Finden (1787-1852) in London. His book illustrations appeared in Dr William Beattie's Switzerland Illustrated (London, 1836), T. Roscoe's Tourist in Spain (London, 1835), Literary Souvenir (London, 1835), Samuel Carter Hall's Book of Gems (London, 1836), Clarkson Stanfield's Stanfield's Coast Scenery (London, 1836), J. Caunter's Lives of the Moghul Emperors (London, 1837), John Carne's Syria (London, 1836-8) and W. H. Harrison's Tourist in Portugal (London, 1839). He lived in Manchester between 1838 and 1847, returning then to London. He engraved eight plates for the Art Journal between 1852 and 1886, worked for Thomas Agnew & Sons, Henry Graves and Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, and exhibited 15 plates at the Royal Academy, London. Plates for Hall's Gems of European Art (London, 1846), J. Timbs's Curiosities of London (London, 1867), T. Baines's Yorkshire (London, 1871-7) and Picturesque Europe (London, 1876-9) followed. Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824-89) was his pupil.
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