F. W. Fairholt

Frederick William Fairholt (1814–1866) was an English wood-engraver and antiquary, born in London to a family of German descent. He produced hundreds of drawings on wood for Charles Knight's illustrated publications and for editions of Shakespeare, and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1844. Alongside his engraving he wrote and edited works on costume, civic pageantry, and the decorative arts, bequeathing his prints and works on costume to the British Museum and his volumes on civic pageantry to the Society of Antiquaries.