Henry Winkles was an English architectural illustrator, engraver and printer, who, together with Karl Ludwig Frommel

Karl Ludwig Frommel

Karl Ludwig Frommel was a German landscape painter and engraver, born at Birkenfeld. He studied at Karlsruhe, under F. J. Becker and Haldenwang, visited Paris, and earned a considerable reputation in Italy . He was appointed professor at Karlsruhe where he founded the Society of Art and Industry...

 founded the first studio for steel engraving

Steel engraving

Steel engraving, is a commercial engraving technique for printing illustrations, based on steel instead of copper. It has been rarely used in artistic printmaking, although was much used for reproductions in the 19th century. Steel engraving was introduced in 1792 by Jacob Perkins , an American...

 in Germany.

In 1836, with Benjamin Winkles, he produced and helped to engrave three volumes of "Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales". This featured illustrators such as Hablot Knight Browne

Hablot Knight Browne

Hablot Knight Browne was an English artist, famous as Phiz, illustrator of books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever and Harrison Ainsworth.-Biography:...

 (the famous "Phiz" of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...

 fame) and architect Robert Garland (1808–1863), with text (and some engraving) by Thomas Moule

Thomas Moule

Thomas Moule was an English antiquarian, writer on heraldry, and map-maker. He is best known for his popular and highly decorated county maps of England, steel-engraved and first published separately between 1830 and 1832....

. These books helped to inspire the 19th century Gothic revival

Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

 in architecture in Britain.

Books

• Henry and Benjamin Winkles. Winkles's Architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales (London: Effingham Wilson and Charles Tilt, 1836–1842):

Vol 1.

Vol 2.

Vol 3.

Illustrated by H. Winkles:

• John Tallis. llustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World".

Engraved by H. Winkles:

• G. Heck. Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art.
• William Tombleson
  William Tombleson
  William Tombleson was an English topographical and architecture artist, illustrator, copper and steel engraver, writer and printmaker, based in London.-Life and works:...
  
  . Tombleson's Views of the Thames and Medway (Tombleson & Co., 1833).

External links

• Engravings (monika-schmidt.com).
• Engravings (Government art collection).
• sketches (National Library of Australia).
• Figure drawings (figure-drawings.blogspot.com)