George Noble (c1740 - 1806). George Noble was an English line-engraver. The son of Edward Noble, author of Elements of Linear Perspective, he was brother to Samuel Noble and William Bonneau Noble. Noble made engravings for John Boydell's edition of Shakespeare: Borachio, Conrade, and Watchman, after Francis Wheatley, scene from Much Ado about Nothing;. Bassanio, Portia, and Attendants, after Richard Westall, from The Merchant of Venice; Orlando and Adam, after Robert Smirke, from As you like it. Desdemona in bed asleep, after Josiah Boydell, from Othello; and Cleopatra, Guards, after Henry Tresham, from Antony and Cleopatra. He engraved also the subjects for Robert Bowyer's edition of David Hume's The History of England, 1806: Canute reproving his Courtiers, Henry VIII and Catharine Parr, Charles I imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle, Lord William Russell's last Interview with his Family, and The Bishops before the Privy Council, after Robert Smirke;. William I receiving the Crown of England, after Benjamin West; and. The Landing of William III at Torbay, after Thomas Stothard. Noble's works included also: eighteen oval portraits of Admiral Lord Duncan and other naval officers, from miniatures by John Smart, which form part of a large plate designed by Robert Smirke, and engraved by James Parker, in commemoration of the battle of Camperdown on 11 October 1797.