The Irish illustrator Albert George Morrow (1863-1927) was born at Comber in County Down. The son of a decorator, he was one of four brothers (out of seven all told) who became illustrators. He was precociously talented, and after taking up his art studies in Belfast won a scholarship which enabled him to study at the National Art Training School in South Kensington, where he was recruited for the English Illustrated Magazine in readiness for its first issue. He was also published in the Sunday at Home, Illustrated Bits, Good Words and Punch, and others. He illustrated books as well, including children's annuals, exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists, and became well known as a poster designer, particularly for the theatre. He was a prominent figure among Irish artists, but he settled in Sussex, where he died at his home in West Hoathly in 1927, and was buried in All Saints' Churchyard in nearby Highbrook. — JB
Manufacturing & Industrial
- The Blast Furnace
- The Mumbles Light House
- Tapping the Furnace
- Watching a Melting Oven
- Sketch in a Rolling Mill
- Over a Gas-Producing Oven
- China-Making at Stoke-on-Trent
- The Thrower
- Turning
- Printing Transfers
- Dipping in Glaze
- Among The Kilns
- The Old Cutlers Hall, Sheffield
- Finishing Knife Handles
- The The Grinding Room
- A Rural Grinding Mill
- Blade Forging Shop
- Sheffield Smoke
- Tailpiece
Miscellaneous
Bibliography
"Albert Morrow." Irish Comics Wiki (but note that this misspells and mislocates West Hoathly). Web. 8 March 2021.
Becker, Bernard H. “China-Making at Stoke-on-Trent.” The English Illustrated Magazine. 2 (1884): 781-90. Hathi Trust version of a copy in the Pennsylvania State University Library. Web. 3 January 2021.
Becker, Bernard H. “Iron and Steel Making in South Wales.” The English Illustrated Magazine. 2 (1884): 223-31. Hathi Trust version of a copy in the Pennsylvania State University Library. Web. 3 January 2021.
Houfe, Simon. The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Cartoonists, 1800-1914/ Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1978.
Palmer, Henry J. “Cutlery and Cutlers at Sheffield” The English Illustrated Magazine. 1 (August 1881): 659-69. Hathi Trust version of a copy in the Pennsylvania State University Library. Web. 4 March 2021. [Complete text in the Victorian Web.]
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