William Henry Powis
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William Henry Powis (1808–1836) was an English wood-engraver. He was regarded as one of the best in the profession in his day.[1] His early death at age 28, according to William James Linton, was caused by consumption.[2]
Life
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 engravings as his own.[2]
Works
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Mount Vesuvius, engraving by William Henry Powis after William Harvey, for The Solace of Song (1837) by Charles Latrobe[2]
Powis's engravings appeared as illustrations in:
- Francis Douce, The Dance of Death (1833), after Hans Holbein (with Bonner);[2]
- James Northcote, Fables;[2]
- Edward Turner Bennett, The Gardens and Menageries of the Zoological Society Delineated (1830–31);[2]
- John Martin and Richard Westall's Pictorial Illustrations of the Bible, (1833);[1]
- Thomas Scott's Bible, edition of 1834.[1]
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