William Henry Powis

William Henry Powis (1808–1836) was a British 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 wood-engravings as his own.^[2]

Works

Mount Vesuvius, wood engraving by William Henry Powis after William Harvey, for The Solace of Song (1837) by Charles Latrobe^[2]

Powis's wood-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]