[2][3] At about this time he produced "The Dame School" and "The Rubber", after Thomas Webster, and "Bedtime", after William Powell Frith, and several plates for The Art Journal from pictures in the Royal Collection and Vernon collection, which included "Cupid and Psyche", after Thomas Uwins, "Uncle Toby and the Widow", after Charles Robert Leslie, and "St Luke painting the Virgin", after Moritz Steinla.

[2] About 1859, he engraved for the Art Union of Glasgow "Many Happy Returns of the Day", after Frith, which was followed by a series of plates illustrating "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow", after Sir Joseph Noel Paton, and later by "The Gentle Shepherd", after David Wilkie, and "O Nannie, wilt thou gang wi' me?"

[2][3] Also for the Art Union of London he engraved "Dr. Johnson waiting for an Audience of Lord Chesterfield", after Edward Matthew Ward; and "Stolen by Gipsies: the Rescue", after John Bagnold Burgess, which had been left unfinished by Charles Henry Jeens.

[2] Among other and later works by Stocks were "Charlotte Corday in the Conciergerie" and "Marie Antoinette listening to the Act of Accusation the day before her Trial", after E. M. Ward; "Detected", by John Callcott Horsley; "The Fight Interrupted", after William Mulready; "The Odalisque" and "The Sister's Kiss", after Sir Frederic Leighton; "The Silken Gown", after Thomas Faed; "Olivia and Viola", from "Twelfth Night", after Sir Joseph Noel Paton; "A Souvenir of Velasquez" and "The Princes in the Tower", after Sir John Everett Millais; and "A Spanish Letter Writer", after John Bagnold Burgess.

Stocks died on 28 April 1892, at his home in Holloway, London, where he had lived since 1845, and was buried in the west side of Highgate Cemetery (grave no.28581) with his son Arthur who had predeceased him.