William Henry Toms
William Henry Toms (c. 1700–1765) was an English engraver. He worked on portraits, book-plates, landscapes and prints of buildings.
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William Henry Toms
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- Name
- William Henry Toms
- Born
- c. 1700
- Died
- 12 September 1765
- Place of death
- Westminster, England
- Occupation
- Engraver
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Languages
- English
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William Henry Toms (c. 1700–1765) was an English engraver. He worked on portraits, book-plates, landscapes and prints of buildings.
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Among his works were the plates for Robert West's "Perspective Views of All the Ancient Churches in London" (1736–1739). In 1741, he worked with Thomas Badeslade on "Chorographia Britanniae or a New Set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales". The maps were republished on 29 September 1742, with additional place names. Among Toms's apprentices was the engraver and publisher John Boydell. Toms lived in Masham Street, London, and was the father of the painter Peter Toms. Toms died in 1765.
John Boydell is recorded as having studied under William Henry Toms. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by William Henry Toms is recorded in the collections of Yale Center for British Art, National Library of Wales, Print Collection and Het Scheepvaartmuseum.
Bridewell Hospital: an aerial view. Engraving by W. H. Toms., 1828, by William Henry Toms
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• Name — William Henry Toms • Born — c. 1700 • Died — 12 September 1765 • Place of death — Westminster, England • Occupation — Engraver • Children — Peter Toms • Illustration — A Perspective View of the Chapel Adjoining Wakefield Bridge, coloured engraving, William Henry Toms, 1743. • Illustration — Bethlehem Hospital by Toms for William Maitland's History of London, published 1739.
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Godfrey, Walter H. Survey of London Monograph 16, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street. British History Online. 203–209. 1963.
- Toms, Peter. 57.
- Potten, Ed. Toms, William Henry (d. 1765). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. May 2014. 10.1093/ref:odnb/50872.
- Redgrave, Samuel. Toms, William Henry, engraver. A Dictionary of Artists of the English School. George Bell & Sons. 433. 1878.
- Getty Research Institute. Toms, William Henry.
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