Weir, HARRISON WILLIAM, book-illustrator, painter, and wood-engraver, was born at Lewes on the 5th May 1824. From about 1845 he exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere pictures of birds and animals. But he is best known by his drawings and wood-engravings in the Illustrated News, British Workman, Band of Hope Review, Chatterbox, Pictorial Times, Field, Graphic, Black and White; in various books of natural history and poultry; and in a series of works written by himself, Animal Stories, Bird Stories, Our Cats, &c.
Weir, HARRISON WILLIAM
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 598
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