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References

Robert Edmund Graves, 1894, "Mottram, Charles" ''Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 39'', London, Smith, Elder & Company, p. 98.
1807 births 1876 deaths 19th-century British printmakers Artists from London British engravers 19th-century British male artists {{UK-artist-stub