page_title: Samuel Williams (engraver)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Williams (engraver) / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Inner titel of the very first „The Numismatic Journal. Edited by John Yonge Akerman, F.S.A. / Secretary to the Numismatic Society. Corresponding member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. I. June, 1836 - April, 1837“ Illustrated with a wood engraving (portrait) of the numismatistJoseph Hilarius Eckhel made by Samuel Williams. The quotation „Haec studia adolescentium alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium, ac solatium praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.“ by „Cicero, pro Archia Poeta“ the informations „London: E. Wilson, King William Street, London Bridge. MDCCCXXXVII“
context_page_description: Samuel Williams was a British draughtsman and wood-engraver.
context_section_description: From his own designs, Williams produced the illustrations to:
  Charles Whittingham's edition of Robinson Crusoe, 1822;
  Mary Trimmer, Natural History, 1823–4;
  The British Stage, 1826 and following years;
  Scott's Bible, 1833–4;
  The Olio, a weekly magazine, 1828–33;
  William Hone, Every-Day Book, 1825–7;
  Charlotte Guest, Mabinogion, 1838;
  James Thomson, The Seasons, 1841;
  Prideaux John Selby, A History of British Forest Trees Indigenous and Introduced, 1842; and
  Thomas Miller, Pictures of Country Life, 1847.
  Cuts from the designs of others are in:
  Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen's edition of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, 1823;
  John Gibson Lockhart, Spanish Ballads, 1840;
  the Abbotsford edition of the Waverley Novels, 1842;
  William Scrope, Deer-stalking, 1846;
  Franz Theodor Kugler, Handbook of Painting; and
  Henry Hart Milman, Horace, 1849.
caption: Wood-engraving of the numiscatist Joseph Hilarius Eckhel by Williams on the first front-page of The Numismatic Journal, about 1837
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