Henry Moses (8 May 1781 – 28 February 1870) was an English engraver. He was born at

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and died at Cowley, Middlesex.

Works

Moses was one of the engravers employed on the official publication ''Ancient Marbles in the British Museum'', 1812–1845. Other works included: The-Decision-of-the-Flower

* ''The Gallery of Pictures painted by

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'', 12 plates, 1811 (patronage of Thomas Hope); * ''A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, &c., from various Museums and Collections'', 170 plates, 1814; * ''Select Greek and Roman Antiquities'', 36 plates, 1817; * ''Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield'', 40 plates, 1819; * ''Examples of Ornamental Sculpture in Architecture, drawn by L. Vulliamy'', 36 plates, 1823; * Illustrations to Goethe's ''Faust'', after

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, 26 plates, 1821; * Illustrations to Schiller's ''Fridolin'' and ''Fight with the Dragon'', 1824 and 1825; * Georg Heinrich Noehden's ''Specimens of Ancient Coins of Magna Graecia and Sicily'', 24 stipple plates, 1826; * ''Works of Canova'', with text by Countess Albrizzi, 3 vols. 1824–8; and * ''Selections of Ornamental Sculpture from the Louvre'', 9 plates, 1828. Moses contributed many of the illustrations to

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's ''Tour of Italy'', 1820, and ''Woburn Abbey Marbles'', 1822. He etched from his own designs ''Picturesque Views of Ramsgate'', 23 plates, 1817; ''Sketches of Shipping'' and ''Marine Sketch Book'', 1824 (reissued by Ackermann, 1837); and ''Visit of William IV, when Duke of Clarence, to Portsmouth in 1827'', 17 plates, 1830. Moses's final work was a set of twenty-two illustrations to ''

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'', after

Henry Courtney Selous Henry Courtney Selous (b. Panton Street, Haymarket, London 1803; d. Beaworthy, Devon, 24 September 1890) was an English painter, illustrator and lithographer. Life He was the son of Gideon "George" Slous (1777–1839), a Flemish portrait an ...

, executed for the

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, 1844.

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