As well as a wood engraver, Joseph Crawhall II (1821–1896) was a businessman,
patron of the arts, campaigner for the preservation of architecture, executor of the
will of Thomas Bewick’s wife. He was elected Sheriff of Newcastle in 1846, and
Mayor in 1849. Fully absorbed in the life of a thriving and productive city, Crawhall
made significant contributions in every area of interest that he pursued.
The cuts are taken from “A pictoral archive of quaint cuts in the chap book style”, a
Dover press publication now out of print. Usually made for chapbooks and printed in
black, a small number of the print run would be subsequently hand-coloured.
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