A Life in Lines and Light Born in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, in 1843, William Small occupied a significant space in the visual landscape of the Victorian era. He was a man of many mediums, moving with ease between the precision of a draftsperson and the fluid grace of a watercolorist. His career was defined by a prolific output that reached far beyond the walls of private studios, finding its way into the hands of the public through the pages of noted periodicals such as The Graphic, Good Words, and Once a week. He possessed a particular ability to translate complex narratives into striking i…