The store will not work correctly when cookies are disabled.
We use cookies to make your experience better.To comply with the new e-Privacy directive, we need to ask for your consent to set the cookies. Learn more about our cookies policy.
Alfred Crowquill - Original 19th Century Engraving. 6 sheets of loose leaf engravings within a paper cover, illustrated on the front. Printed by Standidge & Co, Old Jewry. All the sheets have some degree of foxing as shown, and one has more significant staining at the left margin. One sheet has paper loss at the right edge; others have small tears at the sheet edge in the margin only.Alfred Crowquill was the pseudonym of Alfred Henry Forrester (b. London 1804; d. London 1872), illustrator, caricaturist and writer. The son and brother of public notaries in the City of London, he worked in the family business until his mid-thirties, but began publishing illustrations at an early age. Now best known as a wood engraver, with a rich vein of grotesque fantasy which helps to define the Victorian age, Crowquill contributed extensively to Bentley’s Miscellany, Punch and The Illustrated London News and over a period of almost fifty years illustrated numerous books by himself (mainly children’s stories) and other writers.
