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William Woollett

Also known as: William Woollett; primary name: Woollett, William
Details: individual; printmaker; British; Male
Life dates: 1735-1785
Address: First lived in 'difficult circumstances' according to Boydell with his entire family in upper Lodging in Green's Court Castle Street, in Leicester Square, later lived in Green Street. Finally in Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place
Biography: The most famous British engraver of his day. His portrait by Gilbert Stuart of 1783 is in the Tate (N00217). b. Maidstone, apprenticed to John Tinney. Made his name with the Niobe of 1761. Secretary of the Incorportaed Society of Artists 1766-73. 1775 appointed engraver in ordinary to George III. After his death his family sold all his plates to Hurst Robinson for an annuity on two lives: bankrupted when the firm failed six years later.
Bibliography: Engraved sheet catalogue of his prints as available from Mrs Woollett (Add.Ms.33407, f.178) Louis Fagan, 'A catalogue raisonné of the engraved works of William Woollett', 1885 DNB

660 related objects

drawing; receipt

Museum number: 1852,0705.174 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Drawn by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1779-1780

drawing

Museum number: 1962,0414.7 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Attributed to:William Woollett |
Production date: 1735-1785

drawing

Museum number: 1868,0808.3057 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Drawn by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1735-1785

drawing

Museum number: 1868,0808.3036 |
Producer name: BIOG31003 Drawn by:Thomas Hearne |
Production date: 1744-1817

drawing

Museum number: 1881,0312.112 |
Producer name: Drawn by:AnonymousAfter:William Woollett |
Production date: 1776-1815

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.370 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Drawn by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1735-1785

drawing

Museum number: 1845,0818.2 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Henry EdridgeAfter:Gilbert Stuart |
Production date: 1769-1821

drawing; receipt

Museum number: 1868,0808.3042 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Drawn by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1783

drawing

Museum number: 1863,1114.806 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Attributed to:William Woollett |
Production date: 1753-1775

drawing

Museum number: 1853,1210.660 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Drawn by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1735-1785

drawing; watch-paper; print study

Museum number: 1850,1214.53 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1868,0808.3038 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Gilbert Stuart |
Production date: 1760-1814

drawing

Museum number: 1853,1210.659 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Drawn by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1735-1785

engraving tool

Museum number: 1867,0309.285 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1760-1780

engraving tool

Museum number: 1856,1105.82 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1760-1780

lantern slide (photographic)

Title: Katherine Routledge |
Museum number: Oc,G.T.1510 |
Producer name: Photographed by:Katherine Maria RoutledgePainted by:William Hodges |
Production date: 20thC |
Production place: Painted in:Easter Island

print; trade-card

Museum number: D,2.1249 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousAfter:William Woollett |
Production date: 1800

print

Title: To the Memory of / Mr. William Woollett |
Museum number: 1897,1231.483 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1785-1786

print; watch-paper

Museum number: 1850,1214.54 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett

print; watch-paper

Museum number: 1868,0808.3043 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett

print; watch-paper

Museum number: 1850,1214.55 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett

print; watch-paper

Museum number: 1850,1214.56 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett

print; watch-paper

Museum number: 1850,1214.58 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett

print; watch-paper

Museum number: 1850,1214.57 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett

print; watch-paper

Museum number: 1849,0328.47 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett

print; trade-card

Museum number: D,2.1531 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1770-1780

print; watch-paper

Museum number: 1850,1214.52 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett

print

Title: The battle at La Hogue |
Museum number: 1873,0809.438 |
Producer name: After:Benjamin WestPrint made by:Ignaz Sebastian Klauber |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:St PetersburgPublished in:Augsburg

print

Title: Man of the Sandwich Islands Woman of the Sandwich Islands |
Museum number: Oc2006,Prt.129 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1770s

print

Title: Meleager and Atlanta |
Museum number: 1864,0714.103 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:Benjamin Pouncy |
Production date: 1779

print

Title: Snowden Hill, and the adjacent Country in North Wales |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3139 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Richard Wilson |
Production date: 1775

print

Title: Tobias and the Angel |
Museum number: 1864,0714.93 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:John Emes |
Production date: 1785

print

Title: A Storm |
Museum number: 1871,0812.2432 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:Samuel Smith |
Production date: 1777

print

Title: The Jocund Peasants |
Museum number: 1864,0714.110 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:John Browne |
Production date: 1767

print

Title: Snowden Hill, and the adjacent Country in North Wales |
Museum number: 1864,0714.122 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Richard Wilson |
Production date: 1775

print

Title: The Vicar of Wakefield |
Museum number: 1864,0714.106 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:William Ellis |
Production date: 1780

print

Museum number: 1857,0110.8 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1750-1755

print

Title: Shooting |
Museum number: 1852,0705.203 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Stubbs |
Production date: 1770

print; trade-card

Museum number: 1868,0808.3049 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1750-1760

print

Title: Shooting |
Museum number: 1840,0808.181 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Stubbs |
Production date: 1771

print

Title: Warkworth Hermitage Northumberland |
Museum number: 1849,0328.68 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:William Byrne |
Production date: 1779

print; book-illustration

Title: Tom Jones, assisting Molly Seagrim, In the Church Yard and Repelling her Adversaries |
Museum number: 1849,0328.66 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:Francesco Bartolozzi |
Production date: 1776

print

Title: Morning |
Museum number: 1873,0614.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:Benjamin Pouncy |
Production date: 1787

print

Title: Warkworth Hermitage Northumberland |
Museum number: 1849,0328.69 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:William Byrne |
Production date: 1779

print

Title: The Valley and Glaciers of Grindelwald in the Cant Views in Switzerland and Savoy |
Museum number: 1843,0513.325 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Pars |
Production date: 1774

print

Title: Warkworth Hermitage Northumberland |
Museum number: 1842,1112.62 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:William Byrne |
Production date: 1779

print

Title: The Enchanted Castle |
Museum number: 1866,1114.551 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:Francis Vivares |
Production date: 1782

print

Title: Mr William Woollett. Engraver |
Museum number: 1850,0810.244 |
Producer name: Print made by:Caroline WatsonAfter:Gabriel Stuart |
Production date: 1785

print

Title: The Death of General Wolfe |
Museum number: S,1.66 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1776

print

Title: Calypso receiving Telemachus and Mentor |
Museum number: S,1.13 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1783

print

Title: The Hay-makers |
Museum number: S,1.43 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Smith of Chichester |
Production date: 1774

print

Title: The Hay-makers |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3132 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Smith of Chichester |
Production date: 1774

print

Title: A Woman of the Sandwich Isles |
Museum number: Oc2006,Prt.125 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1785

print

Title: Solitude |
Museum number: S,1.30 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:William Ellis |
Production date: 1778

print

Title: The Death of General Wolfe |
Museum number: 1864,0714.89 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1776

print

Title: The Apple Gatherers |
Museum number: S,1.38 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Smith of Chichester |
Production date: 1768

print

Title: The Death of General Wolfe |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3080 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1776

print

Title: Macbeth |
Museum number: S,1.26 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Francesco Zuccarelli |
Production date: 1770

print

Title: The Vicar of Wakefield |
Museum number: 1864,0714.107 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:William Ellis |
Production date: 1780

print

Title: Shooting |
Museum number: 1852,0705.209 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Stubbs |
Production date: 1771

print

Title: The Valley and Glaciers of Grindelwald in the Cant Views in Switzerland and Savoy |
Museum number: 1852,0705.220 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Pars |
Production date: 1774

print

Title: The Merry Villagers |
Museum number: 1840,0808.239 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Thomas Jones |
Production date: 1776

print

Title: A Storm |
Museum number: 1852,0705.183 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:Samuel Smith |
Production date: 1777

print

Museum number: 1857,0110.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1776

print

Museum number: 1857,0110.14 |
Producer name: BIOG51632 Print made by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1750-1760

print

Title: Combat de la Hogue, 1692 |
Museum number: 1838,1110.19 |
Producer name: Print made by:Étienne Claude VoysardAfter:William Woollett |
Production date: 1781-1812

print

Title: The great Frozen Valley near Chamouny, in Savoy Views in Switzerland and Savoy |
Museum number: 1852,0705.219 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Pars |
Production date: 1774

print

Title: Shooting |
Museum number: 1852,0705.205 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Stubbs |
Production date: 1771

print

Title: The Devil's bridge, in the Canton of Uri Views in Switzerland and Savoy |
Museum number: 1864,0714.128 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Pars |
Production date: 1773

print

Title: The Apple Gatherers |
Museum number: 1858,0626.476 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Smith of Chichester |
Production date: 1768

print

Title: Macbeth |
Museum number: 1845,0507.7 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Francesco Zuccarelli |
Production date: 1770

print; book-illustration

Title: The Fleet of Otaheite assembled at Oparee. |
Museum number: 1864,1114.450 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Hodges |
Production date: 1777

print

Title: Morning |
Museum number: 1864,0714.112 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:Benjamin Pouncy |
Production date: 1787

print

Title: Shooting |
Museum number: 1842,1112.32 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Stubbs |
Production date: 1770

print

Museum number: 1873,0510.2724 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan van VianenAfter:William Woollett |
Production date: 1693 |
Production place: Published in:St PetersburgPublished in:Augsburg

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1849,0328.60 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Hamilton |
Production date: 1779

print

Title: The Jocund Peasants |
Museum number: 1848,0708.221 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:John Browne |
Production date: 1767

print; book-illustration

Title: Monuments in Easter Island |
Museum number: 1864,0714.123 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Hodges |
Production date: 1777

print

Museum number: 1849,0328.62 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel SmithAfter:William Woollett |
Production date: 1760-1808

print

Title: Warkworth Hermitage Northumberland |
Museum number: 1864,0714.133 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:William Byrne |
Production date: 1779

print

Title: The Valley of Luterbrun, in the Canton of Berne Views in Switzerland and Savoy |
Museum number: 1864,0714.127 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Pars |
Production date: 1773

print

Title: The Devil's bridge, in the Canton of Uri Views in Switzerland and Savoy |
Museum number: 1864,1114.455 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Pars |
Production date: 1773

print

Title: The Valley and Glaciers of Grindelwald in the Cant Views in Switzerland and Savoy |
Museum number: 1864,0714.130 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Pars |
Production date: 1774

print

Title: Shooting |
Museum number: 1840,0808.182 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Stubbs |
Production date: 1770

print

Title: Meleager and Atlanta |
Museum number: 1864,0714.102 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:Benjamin Pouncy |
Production date: 1779

print

Title: Shooting |
Museum number: 1864,0714.120 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Stubbs |
Production date: 1770

print

Title: The Valley of Luterbrun, in the Canton of Berne Views in Switzerland and Savoy |
Museum number: 1864,0714.126 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:William Pars |
Production date: 1773

print

Title: The Vicar of Wakefield |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3106 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:William Ellis |
Production date: 1780

print

Title: Shipwreck of Telemachus |
Museum number: 1840,0808.186 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Philip James de Loutherbourg |
Production date: 18thC(late)

print

Title: The Apple Gatherers |
Museum number: 1954,0315.14 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:George Smith of Chichester |
Production date: 1768

print

Title: George the Third King of Great Britain &c &c |
Museum number: 1858,0213.162 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Allan Ramsay |
Production date: 1763-1764

print

Title: A Human Sacrifice, in a Morai, in Otaheite |
Museum number: 1860,0728.95 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:John Webber |
Production date: 1784

print

Museum number: 1868,0808.3058 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1750-1755

print

Title: The Death of General Wolfe |
Museum number: 1861,0413.526 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1776

print

Title: Evening |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3123 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:Samuel Smith |
Production date: 1787

print

Title: Wm Woollett Engraver to his Majesty |
Museum number: Q,3.141 |
Producer name: BIOG46127 Print made by:John Keyse Sherwin |
Production date: 1784

print

Title: Dido and Aeneas |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3096 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Thomas Jones |
Production date: 1787

print; book-illustration

Title: Tom Jones, assisting Molly Seagrim, In the Church Yard and Repelling her Adversaries |
Museum number: 1868,0822.1961 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:Francesco Bartolozzi |
Production date: 1776

print

Title: The Monastery at Tinemouth |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3072 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:William Byrne |
Production date: 1784

print

Museum number: 1868,0808.3115 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Joseph Vernet |
Production date: 1820

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