William Harvey (artist)
William Harvey (13 July 1796 – 1866) was a British wood-engraver and illustrator.
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. Bewick describes him as one "who both as an engraver & designer, stands preeminent" at his day (Memoir, p. 200). 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. S. Dentatus. 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. W. Lane's The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (1838–40).
Harvey is buried in Richmond Cemetery.[1]
Gallery[]
Illustration to The Story of Azeez and Azeezeh
Illustration to The Story of the Two Royal Mendicants
Illustration to The Story of the Fisherman
Illustration to The Story of uns El-Wojood
Illustration to The Story of Alee of Cairo
Illustration to The Story of the Prince Kamar ez-Zeman, and the Princess Budoor
Illustration to The Story of Alee the son of Bekkar, and Shems en-Nahr
Illustration to The Story of the Prince Kamar ez-Zeman, and the Princess Budoor
Illustration to The Story of Abd Allah of the Land and Abd Allah of the Sea
Illustration to The Story of ... El-Ward Fi-l-Akma'm
Illustration to The Story of the Two Princes El-Amjad and El-As'ad
Illustration to The Fifth Voyage of Es-Sindbad of the Sea
Illustration in notes to The Story of Maaroof
Illustration to The Story of Maaroof
Illustration to The Story of Aboo Seer and Abipp (sp) Keer
Illustration to The Story of Abd Allah of the Land ...
Illustration in notes to chapter IX
Illustration to The Story of Seyf El-Mulook and Bedeea El-Jemal
Illustration to The Story of the City of Brass
Illustration to The Story of Ibra'heem and Jemeeleh
Illustration to The Story of Joodar
Illustration to The Story of Hasan of El-Basrah
Illustration to The Story of the Merchant and the Jinnee
Illustration to The Story ... of the Black Islands
Illustration to The Story told by the Sulta'n's Steward
Illustration to The Story told by the Tailor
References[]
- Bewick, Thomas (1975). A Memoir of Thomas Bewick. Edited with an introduction by Iain Bain. London; New York: Oxford University Press.
- Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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Notes[]
- ^ Meller, Hugh; Parsons, Brian (2011). London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer (fifth ed.). Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. pp. 290–94. ISBN 9780752461830.
External links[]
- Harvey's illustrations to Arabian Nights at Arabian Nights Books
- Assassination of L. S. Dentatus at Art of the Print
- William Harvey at Wood Engraving, an Art Lost and Found: Engravers and Illustrators
- Works by William Harvey at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about William Harvey at Internet Archive
- 1796 births
- 1866 deaths
- Burials at Richmond Cemetery
- British wood engravers
- British illustrators