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Last Name Clift

Given Name William

alt. Names W. C. ;

Marriage Caroline Amelia Pope (+1849) in 1799

Children William Home Clift (1803-33); Caroline Amelia Clift (1803-73)

Year born 1775 in Burcombe, Cornwall

Year died 1849

Place of death London, England, UK

Father's occupation Robert Clift

Relatives son-in-law Prof. Richard Owen

Education

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for Everard Home: Lectures on Comparative Anatomy; Matthew Baillie: Morbid Anatomy 1783-1803; William Long, Astley Cooper, Nathaniel Highmore, William Buckland; Richard Owen: Descriptive Cat. Physiol. Series; naturalist John Kidd (1775-1851)

Patronage Royal Society; amanuensis to anat. John Hunter, conservator of Hunter's museum;

Collaborators ->Franz Bauer ; ->Mrs. Marsh ; engraver James Basire ; engraver James Heath ;

Techniques landscape, anatomical, and zoological drawing and watercolour ;

Sample(s) http://www.library.utoronto.ca/anatomical/RBAI055/0006-0-0.jpg ;

Archival sources British Museum Natural History; Royal College of Physicians London; Medical Library Univ.Melbourne ;

Published sources AKL19 1998: 564 ; ThB7 1912: 106 ; Nissen: Zooolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; DSB 1971 ; Sawyer 1971: 114, 140 &167 ; Thornton & Reeves 1983: 101f. ; biog. by Jessie Dobson 1954 ; Lack 2015: 400 ;

other British naturalist, museum curator & scientific illustr.; active in Bodmin, London since 1792. http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2043499__Snatural%20history%20illustrator__P0%2C1__Orightresult__X1?lang=eng&suite=cobalt

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