Gems of Wood Engraving, From the Illustrated London News with a History of the Art, Ancient and Modern

Written by William Andrew Chatto  (British, Newcastle upon Tyne 1799–1864 London)

Sitter:

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Designer:

After Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Engraver:

Lucas Hillian (British, 19th century)

Designer:

After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome)

Draftsman:

Drawn on block by William Harvey (British, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1796–1866 Richmond, Surrey)

Designer:

After Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Designer:

Designed and drawn on block by Edward Duncan (British, London 1803–1882 London)

Designer:

Designed and drawn on block by William Leighton Leitch (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1804–1883 London)

Designer:

After George Lance (British, Little Easton, Essex 1802–1864 New Brighton, Wallasey)

Designer:

Designed and drawn on block by (John) Frederick Tayler (British, Hertfordshire 1806–1889 London)

Designer:

After Alfred Elmore (Irish, Clonakilty, County Cork 1815–1881 London)

Draftsman:

After John Wykenham Archer (British, Newcastle upon Tyne 1806–1864 London)

Designer:

After Francis William Topham (British, Leeds 1808–1877 Córdoba, Spain)

Designer:

After William Powell Frith (British, Aldfield, Yorkshire 1819–1909 London)

Designer:

After WIlliam Edward Frost (British, Wandsworth, Surrey 1810–1877 London)

Designer:

Designed and drawn on block by George Haydock Dodgson (British, Liverpool 1811–1880 London)

Designer:

After William Henry Hunt (British, London 1790–1864 London)

Designer:

After Ary Scheffer (Dutch, Dordrecht 1795–1858 Argenteuil (active France))

Sitter:

Thomas Coram (British, Lyme Regis, Dorset ca. 1668–1751 London)

Designer:

After William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London)

Designer:

After Richard Westall (British, Reepham, Norfolk 1765–1836 London)

Designer:

After Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575–1642 Bologna)

Designer:

After baron François Gérard (French, Rome 1770–1837 Paris)

Designer:

After Edward Matthew Ward (British, London 1816–1879 Windsor)

Designer:

After William Mulready (Irish, Ennis 1786–1863 London)

Designer:

Designed and drawn on block by Joseph John Jenkins (British, London 1811–1885 London)

Designer:

After Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, Menzenschwand 1805–1873 Frankfurt)

Designer:

After Paul (Hippolyte) Delaroche (French, Paris 1797–1856 Paris)

Designer:

After Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (Spanish, Seville 1617–1682 Seville)

Designer:

After Jakob Becker (German, 1810–1872)

Designer:

After Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, Plympton 1723–1792 London)

Designer:

After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)

Designer:

After Charles Landelle (French, Laval 1821–1908 Chennevières-sur-Marne)

Engraver:

Eduard Mandel (German, 1810–1882)

Designer:

After Eduard Magnus (German, 1799–1872)

Designer:

After Frederick Goodall (British, London 1822–1904 London)

Sitter:

After Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Engraver:

Engraved by Henry Duff Linton (British, London 1816–1899)

Artist:

After Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Coburg, Germany 1819–1861 Windsor)

Designer:

After Alfred Downing Fripp (British, Bristol 1822–1895 London)

Designer:

After Antoine Watteau (French, Valenciennes 1684–1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)

Designer:

After Francis Danby (Irish, Killinick, County Wexford 1793–1861 Exmouth)

Draftsman:

After Paul Gavarni [Chevalier] (French, Paris 1804–1866 Paris)

Designer:

After John Frederick Herring Sr. (British, London 1795–1865 Kent)

Designer:

After Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London)

Designer:

After Eugen Neureuther (German, Munich 1806–1882 Munich)

Sitter:

Sebastián Gómez (Spanish, ca. 1646–1682 Seville)

Sitter:

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (Spanish, Seville 1617–1682 Seville)

Designer:

After Edward Henry Wehnert (British, baptised London 1813–1868 London)

Sitter:

Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (British, London 1841–1910 London)

Designer:

After Sir William Charles Ross (British, 1794–1860 London)

Artist and engraver:

Drawn and engraved by Joseph Lionel Williams (British, ca. 1815–1877 London)

Designer:

Designed and drawn on block by Eduard Hildebrandt (German, Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) 1818–1869 Berlin)

Sitter:

Henry V, King of England (Monmouth, Wales 1386/87–1422 Vincennes, France)

Sitter:

Henry IV, King of England (Bolingbroke 1366–1413 London)

Designer:

After John Calcott Horsley (British, London 1817–1903 London)

Sitter:

Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome)

Designer:

After Louis Haghe (Belgian, Tournai 1806–1885 Surrey)

Designer:

After Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, Antwerp 1599–1641 London)

Designer:

After Thomas Creswick (British, Sheffield 1811–1869 London)

Sitter:

Rainier Anslo (active ca. 1637)

Designer:

After Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)

Designer:

After William Parrott (British, 1813–after 1875)

Sitter:

John Milton (British, London 1608–1674 London)

Sitter:

Galileo Galilei (Italian, Pisa 1564–1642 Arcetri outside Florence)

Designer:

After Solomon Alexander Hart (British, Plymouth 1806–1881 London)

Engraver:

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, London 1802–1873 London)

Designer:

After Thomas Landseer (British, London 1795–1880 London)

Sitter:

Jean Goujon (French, ca. 1510–ca. 1565 Bologna (?))

Sitter:

Alfred the Great (848/849–899)

Designer:

After George Frederic Watts (British, London 1817–1904 London)

Designer:

After Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (Spanish, Seville 1617–1682 Seville)

Designer:

After Sir John Gilbert (British, London 1817–1897 London)

Sitter:

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)

Draftsman:

After Joseph Kenny Meadows (British, Cardigan, Wales 1790–1874 London)

Sitter:

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (Dutch, Rotterdam ca. 1466–1536 Basle, Switzerland)

Artist:

After Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)

Publisher:

W. Little (London)

Date:

1849

Medium:

Plates: wood engraving

Dimensions:

Overall: 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)

Classification:

Books

Credit Line:

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963

Accession Number:

63.613.6

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