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unusual facts about wood engraver



Christopher Sandford

Christopher Sandford (1902-1983) of Eye Manor, Herefordshire, was a book designer, proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press, a founding director of the Folio Society, and husband of the wood engraver and pioneer Corn dolly revivalist, Lettice Sandford, née Mackintosh Rate.

Mickley

Thomas Bewick, wood engraver and author of A History of British Birds, the first practical field guide, was born in the village at Cherryburn House, now a National Trust site.

Silver Street, Cambridge

Gwen Raverat (1885–1957, née Darwin, granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin) was a wood engraver, artist, and illustrator, who co-founded the Society of Wood Engravers.


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August Specht

Specht's brothers were the wood engraver Carl Gottlob Specht and the animal painter and illustrator Friedrich Specht.

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Edmund Morison Wimperis (6 February 1835 Flocker's Brook, Chester - 25 December 1900 Southbourne, Christchurch, Hampshire), was an English wood-engraver and watercolour painter and member of The Arts Club.

Frederick Whymper

Whymper was born in London in 1838, the eldest son of Elizabeth Whitworth Claridge and Josiah Wood Whymper, a celebrated wood-engraver and artist.

Friedrich Specht

His brothers were the wood engraver Carl Gottlob Specht and the wildlife painter August Specht (1849–1923).

George Burgess

George Henry Burgess (1831–1905), English-born landscape painter, wood engraver and lithographer

Harriet Ludlow Clarke

Harriet Ludlow Clarke (died 19 January 1866, Cannes) was a wood engraver and stained glass artist.