(b Bradford, c. 1813; d ?London, Nov 1889). Brother of (1) John Cousen. He was taught engraving by his elder brother John and may also have been a pupil of the Findens. The majority of his book illustration was done after William Henry Bartlett, frequently as attractive vignettes that appeared in many of the same volumes as his brother’s work. Dr William Beattie’s Switzerland Illustrated (London, 1836), Scotland Illustrated (London, 1838) and The Waldenses (London, 1838) contain his earliest work; they were followed by plates in Nathaniel Parker Willis’s American Scenery (London, 1840) and Canadian Scenery (London, 1842), Julia Pardoe’s Beauties of the Bosphorus (London, 1840), Henry Stebbing’s Christian in Palestine (London, [1847]) and Bartlett’s own books between 1844 and 1854. Fifty-nine plates appeared in the Art Journal between 1850 and 1888. He painted in his younger days and exhibited at the Society of British Artists in London in 1848.

Part of the Cousen family