Samuel Williams (engraver)

Samuel Williams (23 February 1788 – 19 September 1853) was a British draughtsman and wood-engraver.

He was apprenticed to the Colchester printer J. Marsden, but taught himself to draw and engrave on wood.

[1] In the early part of his life, Williams also painted miniatures, and a few oil pictures.

His first patron was Benjamin Crosby the publisher, for whom he illustrated a work on natural history in 1810.

His prints can be found in James Northcote's Artist's Book of Fables 1828; and John Martin and Richard Westall's Bible Illustrations, 1833.