William Henry Powis

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]

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]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Powis, William Henry". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 46. London: Smith, Elder & Co.