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these designs. Henry Hole* and John Andersonf 

 preceded Nesbit. The next of my pupils, who 

 chiefly turned his attention to wood-engraving, 

 was Edward Willis, who, while he remained 

 with me, was much upon a par with Nesbit, but 

 did not equal him in the mechanical excellence 

 Nesbit had attained to in London. I had a great 

 regard for Edward Willis, on account of his 

 regular good behaviour while he was under my 

 tuition. He has now been long a resident in 

 London. J My nephew, John Harrison, was chiefly 

 employed on writing engraving; he died of epileptic 

 fits, and was buried at North Shields between two 

 trees near the footpath . Henry White, from London, 

 was engaged to me to serve out the remainder of his 



* Henry Fulke Plantagenet Woolicombe Hole left Newcastle and 

 went to Liverpool, where he was patronised by Mr. Roscoe, Capel 

 Lofft, Maccreery the printer, and others, until the death of his 

 grandfather, . Hole, Esq., of Ebberley Hall, Devonshire, to whose 

 very large property he fell heir, and left off pursuing the arts any 

 longer. [Hole, like Nesbit, worked on Ackermann's "Religious 

 Emblems," and executed a much-praised vignette to Shepherd's 

 " Poggio." He is also said to have prepared some of the cuts to 

 the "British Birds." In 1814, according to Redgrave, he contri- 

 buted to the Liverpool Academy "An Attempt to restore the old 

 Method of Cross-lining on Wood," engraved by himself. He 

 was the son of a captain in the Lancashire Militia.] 



[f John Anderson was the son of Dr. James Anderson of Edin- 

 burgh, who edited the " Bee." He is said to have engraved the 

 illustrations to [Dr. Lettsom's] "Grove Hill," and an edition of 

 "Junius's Letters." He left England and went to South America. 

 He is often confused with the New York engraver, Dr. Alexander 

 Anderson (1775-1870), who reproduced several of the works of the 

 Bewicks. A catalogue of Dr. Anderson's productions appeared at 

 New York in 1885.] 



[j Little is known of Edward Willis, beyond the fact that he 



was a cousin of the famous engineer, George Stephenson. From 



a letter from William Harvey to R. E. Bewick he was in London 

 in 1818, and not doing well.] 



