William Luson Thomas
William Luson Thomas is a British wood engraver whose reproductive prints translated paintings and illustrations into the crisp linear language of nineteenth-century printmaking. The archive holds a single sheet by him, a wood engraving dated 1861 that reproduces J. Gilbert's painting "Rembrandt's Studio" as it appeared in the pages of "L'Univers Illustré." This lone example captures the role of the engraver as an intermediary between the painted image and its wide printed circulation.
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