Alexander Francis Lydon was an Irish-born British watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer, to whom he had been appren
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Guy's Cliffe, Warwick, Warwickshire from the book County Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland
Warwick Castle, Warwick, Warwickshire from the book County Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland
Benjamin Fawcett was an English nineteenth century wood-engraver and colour printer.
Alexander Francis Lydon
…LY-dən; 1836/1837 – 1917) was an Irish-born British watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer, to whom he had been apprenticed from an early age. He collaborated on a large number of works with the Rev. Francis Orpen Morris who wrote…
County Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870)
"White-headed Woodpecker", wood-engraving by Fawcett, drawing by T. W. Wood