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COLE, TIMOTHY (1852– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 665 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLE, See also:TIMOTHY (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 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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