William Henry Powis
William Henry Powis (1808–1836) was a British wood engraver. He was regarded as one of the best in the profession in his day. His early death at age 28, according to William James Linton, was caused by consumption.
William Henry Powis
Engraver William Henry Powis, after William Harvey · Google Books · Public domain
- Born
- 1808
- Died
- 1836
- Occupation
- engraver
- Languages
- English
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William Henry Powis (1808–1836) was a British wood engraver. He was regarded as one of the best in the profession in his day. His early death at age 28, according to William James Linton, was caused by consumption.
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Powis was born in London, and trained by George Wilmot Bonner. He then worked for John Jackson, who may have published some of Powis's wood-engravings as his own.
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• Illustration — Mount Vesuvius, wood engraving by William Henry Powis after William Harvey, for The Solace of Song (1837) by Charles Latrobe Powis's wood-engravings appeared as illustrations in: • Francis Douce, The Dance of Death (1833), after Hans Holbein (with Bonner); • James Northcote, Fables; • Edward Turner Bennett, The Gardens and Menageries of the Zoological Society Delineated (1830–31); • John Martin and Richard Westall's Pictorial Illustrations of the Bible, (1833); • Thomas Scott's Bible, edition of 1834.
Illustration from The Romance of History (1833) by Henry Neele. A knight lies asleep and has a vision, of a king leading by the hand a veiled young woman.
Engraver William Henry Powis, after Thomas Landseer · British Museum
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1808
William Henry Powis born.
1836
William Henry Powis died.
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