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TIMOTHY COLE (1852– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 665 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIMOTHY See also:COLE (1852– )  , See also:American See also:wood engraver, was See also:born in See also:London, See also:England, in 1852, his See also:family emigrating to the See also:United States in 1858 . He established himself in See also:Chicago, where in the See also:great See also:fire of 1871 he lost everything he possessed . In 1875 he removed to New See also:York, finding See also:work on the See also:Century (then Scribner's) See also:magazine . He immediately attracted See also:attention by his unusual facility and his sympathetic See also:interpretation of illustrations and pictures, and his publishers sent him abroad in 1883 to engrave a set of blocks after the old masters in the See also:European galleries . These achieved for him a brilliant success . His reproductions of See also:Italian, Dutch, Flemish and See also:English pictures were published in See also:book See also:form with appreciative notes by the engraver himself . Though the See also:advent of new See also:mechanical processes had rendered wood See also:engraving almost a lost See also:art and See also:left practically no demand for the work of such craftsmen, Mr See also:Cole was thus enabled to continue his work, and became one of the foremost contemporary masters of wood engraving . He received a See also:medal of the first class at the See also:Paris See also:Exhibition of 19oo, and the only See also:grand See also:prize given for wood engraving at the See also:Louisiana See also:Purchase Exposition at St See also:Louis, See also:Missouri, in 1904 .

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