William Fowler Hopson Born in Watertown, Connecticut, William Fowler Hopson was best known for his bookplates, although he also worked as a painter, engraver, etcher, and illustrator. In 1867 he was briefly apprenticed with Henry Curtis, an engraver from Hartford. He then worked with Lockwood Sanford in New Haven. After studying J. D.Felter and August Will in New York, he opened an engraving shop with Roger Sherman around 1872. In 1885 he began working in a studio/workshop in his home. His first bookplate design, an etching, was produced in 1892. Among his important commissions were a set of over two thousand engravings for a late-nineteenth-century edition of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary and engraved illustrations for an edition of a George Eliot novel. Hopson exhibited works at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and was a member of many art organizations, among them the Grolier Society of New York, the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, the California Bookplate Society, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In 1901 he received an honorable mention at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.
WILLIAM FOWLER HOPSON (b.1849 - d.1935)
Bookplate engraving, proof, designed for: FREDERICK WELLS WILLIAMS. F W Williams was an American historian, Assistant Professor in Oriental History at Yale University, and son of sinologist Prof. Samuel Wells Williams.
Signed: under the printed image, W.F.Hopson. The signature looks to be pencil, but it could be an ink pen - but not printed. Subject: Chinese temple gate with mandarin characters. The image measures: 3" x 3 7/8" IF THERE ARE ANY SIGNS OF AN ETCHING PLATE, THEY ARE SO FEINT THAT WE CANNOT SEE THEM. UNSURE OF THE PRINTING METHOD USED - may be an engraving rather than etching. The paper is more smooth and shiny than most of the Ex Libris in the group we are currently selling. The paper measures: 9 1/2" x 12"
We are currently selling a large number of bookplate engravings by this artist. W.F.Hopson was an important artist and engraver in the USA; a large collection of his work was donated to the British Museum in 1935 by G H Viner, and several others have been donated to the museum by C D Sherborn. A bibliography of the artist's work was written by Francis W Allen in 1961 for Yale University. We are happy to combine postage if you win more than one of our auctions.
About the artist, William Fowler Hopson: Born in Watertown, Connecticut, William Fowler Hopson was best known for his bookplates, although he also worked as a painter, engraver, etcher, and illustrator. In 1867 he was briefly apprenticed with Henry Curtis, an engraver from Hartford. He then worked with Lockwood Sanford in New Haven. After studying with J.D.Felter and August Will in New York, he opened an engraving shop with Roger Sherman around 1872. In 1885 he began working in a studio/workshop in his home. His first bookplate design, an etching, was produced in 1892. Among his important commissions were a set of over two thousand engravings for a late-nineteenth-century edition of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary and engraved illustrations for an edition of a George Eliot novel. Hopson exhibited works at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and was a member of many art organizations, among them the Grolier Society of New York, the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, the California Bookplate Society, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In 1901 he received an honorable mention at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. (citation: Smithsonian website)
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