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Edmund Evans

British wood engraver and printer (1826-1905)

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  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections
  • Frequent collaborators
  • Related topics

Images from the collections

Images by Edmund Evans

22 images from works
  • Sir James Graham. Wood engraving by E. Evans, 1845.
  • Grace Darling rowing out to sea in a furious storm. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after C.J. Staniland.
  • A street during the plague in London with a death cart and mourners. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans.
  • A Scottish soldier sleeping after battle dreams of a reunion with his wife and family. Colour wood engraving by Edmund Evans after F. Goodall.
  • Fourty three single cellular and multi cellular animals. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after T. West.
  • The wise virgins take their lamps to the newly married couple; the foolish virgins sleep. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after D.H. Friston.
  • Three girls sit on a sofa with sewing and knitting needles in their hands. Colour wood engraving attributed to E. Evans after Kate Greenaway.
  • After a haymaking holiday,  three couples are dancing to a man playing the flute and a woman playing the accordion. Colour wood engraving after R. Caldecott, 1881.
  • Charles S. Stratton, a dwarf known as General Tom Thumb, before Europe's monarchs. Wood engraving by E. Evans.
  • Three young women are sitting at table in a garden having afternoon tea, with a large fruit cake. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after Kate Greenaway.

Works from the collections

23 works

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Men and women on a haymaking holiday sit on piles of harvested hay holding rakes and pitchforks, while others load up the haycart. Colour wood engraving after R. Caldecott, 1881.

    Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886. | Date: 1881 | Reference: 33247i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    After a haymaking holiday, three couples are dancing to a man playing the flute and a woman playing the accordion. Colour wood engraving after R. Caldecott, 1881.

    Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886. | Date: 1881 | Reference: 33248i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A young woman sits on the floor at the feet of her grandmother who has been reading from the Bible on the table nearby. Colour woodcut by Edmund Evans after J.E. Millais.

    Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896. | Reference: 27674i
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    • Online

    Tongues and other microscopic parts of snails. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after T. West, after W. F. Maples.

    Maples, W. F. | Reference: 42254i
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    A street during the plague in London with a death cart and mourners. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans.

    | Reference: 6918i

Frequent collaborators

Randolph Caldecott
Kate Greenaway
Tuffen West

Related topics

Vacations
Hay - Harvesting

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