George Wilmot Bonner (24 May 1796 – 3 June 1836) was a British wood-engraver.

Life

Bonner was born at

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and educated at

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, he was apprenticed to Allen Robert Branston and then James Henry Vizetelly, wood-engravers in London. He became an engraver in the style of

Thomas Bewick Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was an English wood engraving, wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, ...

, and was noted for producing a gradation of tints by means of a combination of blocks. Bonner himself trained

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and William Henry Powis. He died on 3 June 1836.

Works

With John Byfield, Bonner engraved for ''The Dance of Death'', edited by

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in 1833, Hans Holbein's ''Imagines Mortis'', from the

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edition of 1547. Some of his prints appeared in the '' British Cyclopædia''.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Bonner, George Wilmot 1796 births 1836 deaths English engravers