Note 395 — 1841.

Fraser was a successful modeller, and although a carpenter by trade, made himself useful as a wood engraver. Many of the wood-cuts in Colonel Pasley’s ‘Practical Operations of a Siege,’ were executed by him, and although they exhibit but little artistic merit, they yet afford scope to show how he adapted himself to circumstances. He also assisted in the task of engraving the most difficult of the plates to the ‘Architectural Course.’ None of his works in this line betray any ambition, but his models were put out of hand in a skilful and workmanlike manner. As a whole, he was a man of singular simplicity. In July, 1849, he was pensioned at 2s. 3d. a-day, and retiring to Kilochunagan, settled down as a farmer.