William Harvey
William Harvey • Illustration — William Harvey, wood-engraving from Illustrated London News • Illustration — 1835 woodcut by Harvey portraying the killing of King Edward the Martyr William Harvey (13 July 1796 – 13 January 1866) was a British wood-engraver and illustrator. William Harvey was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, Harvey was the son of a bath-keeper. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to Thomas Bewick, and became one of his favorite pupils.
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William Harvey

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- Born
- 1796 · Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Died
- 1866
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Kingdom of Great Britain
- Occupation
- painter · engraver · illustrator · xylographer · draftsperson
- Teachers
- Thomas Bewick
- Languages
- English
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William Harvey • Illustration — William Harvey, wood-engraving from Illustrated London News • Illustration — 1835 woodcut by Harvey portraying the killing of King Edward the Martyr William Harvey (13 July 1796 – 13 January 1866) was a British wood-engraver and illustrator. William Harvey was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, Harvey was the son of a bath-keeper. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to Thomas Bewick, and became one of his favorite pupils.
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Bewick describes him as one "who both as an engraver & designer, stands preeminent" at his day (Memoir, p. He engraved many woodblocks for Bewick's Aesop's Fables (1818). Harvey moved to London in 1817, studying drawing with Benjamin Haydon, and anatomy with Charles Bell. In 1821, he made a wood-engraving after Haydon in imitation of engraving, the large block of the Assassination of L. This was probably the then most ambitious woodblock which had been cut in England. Harvey switched to design, after the death of John Thurston, the then leading wood designer in London. One of his earliest works is his illustrations for Alexander Henderson's History of Ancient and Modern Wines in 1824. His masterpieces are his illustrations to Northcote's Fables (1823–33) and to E. Lane's The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (1838–40).
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1796
William Harvey was born in 1796 at Newcastle upon Tyne.
1866
William Harvey died in 1866.
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