Samuel Fisher, Artist and Engraver

[Stumped!]

Valda

Thank you for the link. I will certainly read the tutorial before imposing myself on the deciphering board.

Hack

What they have sent me is a pdf of the will (just over 4 pages). I haven't done any scanning on it. I converted it to a jpg using pdfxvwer so that I could post that small part.

Peter

[Susanne Grundison]

Hello, I found this post when I was doing research on some engravings that were donated to our local auction in Canada. There is one S Fisher engravings in our auction donated through an estate sale (the deceased were world travellers so we believe they collected them in their travels). There are markings on the back confirming they are old. This local auction is fundraising for the Duncan curling club and the Rotary Club of Duncan of which I am a member of both and part of the organizing team. Happy to work with you to get the item shipped if you are successful in bidding. the auction website is
 https://auctria.events/RotaryGarageSaleCurlingClubFundraiser    I hope you get this post before the auction ends of May 22nd. Cheers   Item number is 41

[Hackstaple]

Samuel Fisher was a very skilful engraver of steel plates whose career extended from the early 1830's up to about 1852. He died in 1855. He was exceptional at translating the mood that artists had put into their work and notably the half-dozen of Turner's works that he engraved.

Like most of his profession he was a competent artist himself and many of his engravings are entirely his own composition.

I have some thousands of old engravings as I used to deal in old maps and prints and amongst them are several by this engraver.