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Last Name Meerburgh / Meerburg

Given Name Nicolas van der

alt. Names N. v. d. M. ; Nicholaus v. d. Meer / N. Meerburg / Merburg ;

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Year born 1734 in Leiden, Netherlands

Year died 1814

Place of death Leiden, Netherlands ?

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Country of Activity Netherlands

Worked for anatomist Giovanni Domenico Santorini (1681-1737): Observationes anat. (1739) ;

Patronage Czar Peter I; Botanical Garden in Leiden (gardener & later director)

Collaborators reengravings from artist ->Marco Galli & engraver ->Carlo Orsolini ;

Techniques botanical drawing and engraving

Sample(s) p. 42 in www.ub.uni-leipzig.de/roemersgarten/images/Auszug_Katalog_Roemers_Garten.pdf

Archival sources www.botanicus.org/creator/632

Published sources Nissen: Botan. Buchillustr. 1966 ; Johnston 1992: no.592; Choulant 1920: 263; Bryan's online Dict. vol. 3.

other mostly active in Leiden, Netherlands, but around 1760 also active in Paris;

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