[2] In 1818, he accompanied Thomas Frognall Dibdin, to make drawings, on a continental journey, and his illustrations to the Bibliographical and Picturesque Tour through France and Germany were published in 1821.
[1] From 1820 to 1859, Lewis exhibited portraits, landscapes, and figure subjects at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, the Suffolk Street Gallery, and the Oil and Water-colour Society.
[1] Lewis executed some of the plates for Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron (1817), in which he and his brothers Frederick and Charles were eulogised.
He etched a series of Groups illustrating the Physiognomy, Manners, and Character of the People of France and Germany, issued in parts and completed in 1823.
He published, among other works:[1] Some of Lewis's portraits were engraved, and he aquatinted a large plate of the procession of the knights of the order of the Bath in Westminster Abbey, after Frederick Nash.