page_title: Annie Waterhouse
section_title: Woodcuts and teaching career
hierarchical_section_title: Annie Waterhouse / Woodcuts and teaching career
caption_attribution_description: English: Engraving of hall by A. N. Waterhouse
context_page_description: A. N. Waterhouse, also known as Annie Newman Waterhouse was an English illustrator, woodcutter, engraver, and teacher. She is best known for her illustrations in working with Joseph Wilson Lowry on Samuel Pickworth Woodward's A Manual of the Mollusca, which was published in three parts. The first part of A Manual of the Mollusca was published in 1851, and it was one of the most notable works on Mollusks that existed at that time. She was also a professor at Marlborough House, and taught classes on wood engraving for ladies only.
context_section_description: During her lifetime, Annie Waterhouse created many woodcuts, but her most notable works are in A Manual of the Mollusca. She produced the woodcuts for this work based on the drawings of mollusks by Samuel Pickworth Woodward, and then these were later engraved to create the book. She also created some embellishments for Sir Henry Cole's A Hand-Book for the Architecture, Tapestries, Paintings, Gardens, & Grounds of Hampton Court.
  
  She began teaching wood engraving at Marlborough House around the same time that A Manual of the Mollusca was published. The woodcut of a snail as seen in this book is the living specimen of Helix desertorum that was in the British Museum at the time. In the essay "Seven Year Sleepers" by Grant Allen, the author misidentifies A. N. Waterhouse as "Mr. Waterhouse" when describing the story of the snail that woke up famous.
  It is possible that there are many woodcuts that were not expressly credited to her, as during this time and depending on the publisher, sometimes the name of the illustrator was not disclosed aside from in the financial records of the publisher, and female illustrators were credited even less commonly. She, as well as the students in her engraving class, produced work for the purpose of practice, as well as professional work to be used under the authority of the Department of Science and Art. They produced work to be used by the school at Marlborough House, as well as for patrons.
caption: Engraving of hall by A. N. Waterhouse
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