Samuel Rawle

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Samuel Rawle (1771–1860) was an English topographical engraver and draughtsman working in London. From 1798 he produced many plates for the European Magazine and the Gentleman's Magazine. Later he worked on major topographical books of his day, such as Murphy's Arabian Antiquities of Spain (1816), Surtees's History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham (1816), Wilkinson's Londina Illustrata (1819), Hakewill's Picturesque Tour of Italy (1820), Dibdin's Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany (1821), and Whitaker's Richmondshire (1823). He showed landscape drawings at the Royal Academy in 1801 and 1806. He died in November 1860 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.