Thomas Cook (c. 1744–1818)

• Was an English engraver.
• Cook was a pupil of Simon François Ravenet, resident in London.
• Cook was very industrious, and, soon reaching a high position in his art, was employed by John Boydell and other art publishers on works which had a large circulation.
• He is best known from having copied the complete engraved work of William Hogarth, to which he devoted the years 1795 to 1803, and which was published in 1806 under the title of Hogarth Restored.
• Cook was employed also in engraving history, architecture, and plates for magazines.
• He also engraved many portraits, for The Gentleman's Magazine and others, and as frontispieces.
• Among these were Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, George Washington, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Churchill, John Cunningham, William Harvey, David Hume and Joseph Spence.
• Cook died in London in 1818, aged 74.

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