Thomas Cook
(1744 or 1745?-1818), PrintmakerArtist associated with 36 portraits
Thomas Cook was a pupil of Simon François Ravenet, who afterwards undertook a range of projects for the publisher. He worked as a printmaker in a number of contexts, producing portraits for the Gentleman's Magazine and frontispieces for book publishers, as well as a number of single plates in different genres for Boydell. Cook was best known for his reproductions of the works of Hogarth, published as Hogarth Restored in 1806. He also engraved the reduced reproductions of Hogarth for Nichols and Stevens's Genuine Works of William Hogarth (1808-17).
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
by Thomas Cook, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
line engraving, (1764-1765)
NPG D23053
by Thomas Cook, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
line engraving, (1767)
NPG D13891
by Thomas Cook, after Hans Holbein the Younger
line engraving, probably late 18th-early 19th century
NPG D24309
George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
by Thomas Cook
line engraving, possibly late 18th to early 19th century
NPG D25141
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester
by Thomas Cook
line engraving, possibly late 18th to early 19th century
NPG D25817
by Thomas Cook, after Samuel Cooper
line engraving, late 18th century
NPG D28727
by Thomas Cook, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
line engraving, late 18th to early 19th century
NPG D27511
by Thomas Cook, published by George Kearsley, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
line engraving, published 1775
NPG D29414
Edward Russell, Earl of Orford
by Thomas Cook, published by George Kearsley, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
line engraving, published 1 June 1775
NPG D31209
by Thomas Cook, published by John Bell, after John Patoun
line engraving, published 26 August 1777
NPG D15554
by Thomas Cook, after John Theodore Heins (Dietrich Heins)
line engraving, published 1779
NPG D27486
by Thomas Cook, after Robert Dellow
line engraving, published 1781
NPG D27319
by Thomas Cook, after Isaac Whood
line engraving, published 1782
NPG D14519
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble) in the Character of the Tragic Muse
by Thomas Cook, printed for John Bell
line engraving, published 7 May 1783
NPG D8466
by Thomas Cook, after Unknown artist
line engraving, published 1784
NPG D23149
by Thomas Cook
line engraving, published 1787
NPG D5523
Elizabeth Inchbald (née Simpson)
by Anthony Walker, and by Collings, published by Thomas Bellamy, after Thomas Cook
line engraving, published 1 September 1787
NPG D14206
probably by Thomas Cook
line engraving, published 1788
NPG D9394
probably by Thomas Cook, after Unknown artist
line engraving, published 1788
NPG D9399
by Thomas Cook
line engraving, published 1793
NPG D24047
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