English portrait and figure engraver (1807-1871)

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Two women in prayer before an open shrine. Engraving by W. Holl and F. Holl after J. Browne.

Alexandra, Princess of Wales with her baby son Albert Victor. Engraving by W. Holl the younger, 1864, after a photograph by V. Heath.

A family of gypsies sit in their camp with a child they have stolen. Engraving by W. & F. Holl, 1840, after F.P. Stephanoff.

Mary Somerville [Fairfax]. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1858, after J. R. Swinton, 1848.

Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea. Stipple engraving by W. Holl after G. Richmond.

David Livingstone. Stipple engraving by W. Holl after H. Phillips.

Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin. Etching by W. Holl, 1884.

A sick boy pulling a peculiar face after eating some gruel which also contained some medicine. Engraving by W. Holl, the younger, after W. Hunt.

Convent of St Bernard, Switzerland: a distressed woman in Swiss peasant costume is standing in the snow outside a monastery and pleads to two monks pointing in the distance, the monks are sending out their St. Bernard dog for rescue. Stipple engraving by F. Stone after W. Holl.

Xavier Chabert, a fire eater. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1829, after A. Wivell.

Joseph Beaumont. Stipple engraving by W. Holl after J. B. Bedford.

Thomas Thomson. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1855, after Mrs Robinson.

Joseph Hume. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1840, after G. P. A. Healy.

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William Holl

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Images by William Holl

Works from the collections

David Livingstone. Stipple engraving by W. Holl after H. Phillips.

A family of gypsies sit in their camp with a child they have stolen. Engraving by W. & F. Holl, 1840, after F.P. Stephanoff.

Joseph Hume. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1840, after G. P. A. Healy.

Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea. Stipple engraving by W. Holl after G. Richmond.

Convent of St Bernard, Switzerland: a distressed woman in Swiss peasant costume is standing in the snow outside a monastery and pleads to two monks pointing in the distance, the monks are sending out their St. Bernard dog for rescue. Stipple engraving by F. Stone after W. Holl.