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Last Name Dickes

Given Name William

alt. Names W. D. ;

Marriage Sarah Bloomfield in 1841 ;

Children 3 daughters, 6 sons: William Frederick (1843-1920) and Walter (18xx-1913 ) ;

Year born 1815 in Beechencliff near Bath

Year died 1892

Place of death Brixton, London

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education apprenticed to the wood engr. Robert Branston Jr. c.1831, from 1835 Royal Academy Schools (w. awards)

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for The Naturalist's Library (1840) ; John Traherne Moggridge (1842-74) ; Mary & Elizabeth Kirby: Caterpillars (1860) ; Anne Pratt: Wild Flowers & Flowering Plants & Ferns of GB ; P. H. Gosse: Canadian Naturalist 1(840) ; Charles Kingsley: Glaucus (1855) ;

Patronage Religious Tract Society; People's Magazine, Gentleman's Journal; Queen; Sir William Jardine's Naturalist Library Series

Collaborators illustrator -> Anne Pratt ; -> W. H. Lizars ; Emily Bolingbroke ; William Frederick Dickes (son) ; Walter Dickes (son) ; James de Carle Sowerby ; G. B. Sowerby Jr. ;

Techniques botanical, zoological, and ornithological drawing, wood engraving, copperplate engraving, lithography, and chromoxylography ; pioneering colour printi

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_Dickes02.jpg ;

Archival sources www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/portraits/engravers/dickes.html ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dickes ;

Published sources AKL 27 2000: 174 ; Cleevely 1974: 519 ; C. E. Jackson 1978: 91-104 ; A. Blum: Picturing Nature 1993 ; Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1839-42 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; J. Kramers: Women Flowers 1996: 158 & 163 ;

other Since 1846 he set up a business of his own in London as "artist and engraver in wood and copper" and retired in 1873. Inventor of chromograph machine.

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