biography of R. AUSTEN (XIX)

Profession: Wood engraver

Comments: Working c.1801.

Sources: G&W; Hamilton, cites The Farmer's Boy (Robert Bloomfield, 4th American edition, N.Y., 1801), for which Austen did 3 cuts and Alexander Anderson some others, and Bewick's Quadrupeds (1st American edition), in which appears one engraving by Austen.