BROWNE, HABLOT KNIGHT

BROWNE, HABLOT KNIGHT
   artist, born in London; illustrated Dickens's works, "Pickwick" to begin with, under the pseudonym of "Phiz," as well as the works of Lever, Ainsworth, Fielding, and Smollett, and the Abbotsford edition of Scott; he was skilful as an etcher and an architectural draughtsman (1815-1882).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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