George Cooke (engraver)

Around the end of his apprenticeship he engraved many plates for Brewer's The Beauties of England and Wales, some in conjunction with his elder brother, William Bernard Cooke.

[1] Afterwards, he produced engravings for Pinkerton's 16-volume Collection of Voyages and Travels, during which his brother William made plans for the first edition of The Thames, to which George Cooke contributed two plates.

[1] Between 1817 and 1833 he produced, in connection with Loddiges of Hackney, London a number of plates for the Botanical Cabinet,'[4] and about the same time he engraved some of the plates, after Turner, for Hakewill's Picturesque Tour of Italy, 1820,[5] and Sir Walter Scott's Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, 1826,[6] in which latter work should be especially noted "Edinburgh from the Calton Hill".

[1] In 1825, Cooke finished his fine engraving of "Rotterdam", from Augustus Wall Callcott's picture belonging to the Earl of Essex, and shortly afterwards issued a prospectus announcing a series of plates from Callcott's works, of which two, "Antwerp" and "Dover", were begun and considerably advanced when vexation at the loss of the proceeds of his 'Rotterdam,'caused by the failure of his agent, led to their abandonment.

[1] He then began, in 1826, the Views in London and its Vicinity,[10] engraved from drawings by Callcott, Stanfield, Roberts, Prout, Stark, Harding, Cotman, and Havell, ending with the 12th issue just before his death.