Thomas Cook (engraver)

Cook was a pupil of Simon François Ravenet, who at the time was resident in London.

This is a very valuable collection, as many of Hogarth's prints were of great rarity, and had not been made public before.

[2] Cook was employed also in engraving history, architecture, and plates for magazines.

Among his works are Jupiter and Semele and Jupiter and Europa, after Benjamin West; The English Setter, after John Milton, engraved with S. Smith in 1770 as a pendant to The Spanish Pointer, by William Woollett; The Wandering Musicians, a copy of Johann Georg Wille's engraving, after Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich; St Cecilia, after Richard Westall, and several views after Paul Sandby for The Copperplate Magazine.

Among these were Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel; George Washington, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Churchill, John Cunningham, William Harvey, David Hume and Joseph Spence.