3-052-783 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mr. G. H. Dodgson, artist, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Mr J. Waller. 'Mr. George Haydock Dodgson was a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, and formerly belonged to the Institute. He was at one time much engaged in drawing on the wood for our own Engravings. His studies of sea and rocks at Whitby, in Yorkshire, and on the coast of the Mumbles, at Swansea, South Wales, also his landscapes of Knole Park, Sevenoaks, and other scenery, have been much admired. Mr. Dodgson was born at Liverpool in 1811. After leaving school, he was placed with George Stephenson, the great engineer, who employed him to survey land for different railways and to calculate expenses in order to send in specifications to the House of Commons. He was much valued by George and Robert Stephenson, on account of his punctuality and indefatigable exertions to complete his work by a certain time...as he had always from boyhood determined to be an artist, he saved sufficient money during this time to enable him to sketch from nature. After a few years' travelling he married, in 1839, and devoted himself steadily to the profession of his choice, in which he won a fair degree of success. Mr. Dodgson has left a widow, one son, and two daughters'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.