Henry Moses (engraver)


Henry Moses was an English engraver. He was born 8 May 1781 at Marylebone and died at Cowley, Middlesex, 28 February 1870.

Works

Moses was one of the engravers employed on the official publication Ancient Marbles in the British Museum, 1812–1845. Other works included:
, illustration to Goethe's Faust I
Moses contributed many of the illustrations to James Hakewill's Tour of Italy, 1820, and Woburn Abbey Marbles, 1822. He etched from his own designs Picturesque Views of Ramsgate, 23 plates, 1817; Sketches of Shipping and Marine Sketch Book, 1824 ; and Visit of William IV, when Duke of Clarence, to Portsmouth in 1827, 17 plates, 1830. Moses's final work was a set of twenty-two illustrations to Pilgrim's Progress, after Henry Courtney Selous, executed for the Art Union of London, 1844.