title: William Angus (engraver)
text: # William Angus (engraver)
  
  William Angus (c. 1752–12 October 1821) was an English engraver of copper plates for prints and book illustrations.
  
  ## Life and work
  
  William Angus was born in 1752. He became a master engraver. Among his pupils was the engraver William Bernard Cooke (1778–1855).
  
  He died in Islington, Middlesex on 12 October 1821; probate was granted on his will on 15 March 1822.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Brough Hall, seat of Sir John Lawson
  * Castle Howard
  * Cusworth, seat of William Wrightson
  * Sand Beck, seat of the Earl of Scarborough
  * Thomas Paine, 1791
  * Newnham Court in Oxfordshire, the Seat of Earl Harecourt, 1795
  