Henry William Ball, Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)
“ He also executed at least twenty-nine engravings, mostly of objects of antiquity, which were never published. Many of the published plates are accompanied by printed broadsides. Most of the lettering on the plates was done by professed engravers. Those which he did himself are much more characteristic and interesting. He became acquainted with Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Walter Scott, and other celebrities, and was once at least presented to the royal family at Windsor. Fowler, though an earnest member of the church of England, was at the same time a ‘class-leader’ among the methodists. ”
