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   White
   Robert
   R. W. ;
   
   mezzotint engraver George White (1684?-1732)
   1645 in London
   1703
   Bloomsbury Market, London
   
   
   pupil of David Loggan (1634–1692), a leading portrait engraver
   United Kingdom
   Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694): Anatome Plantarum 1675-97; John Browne: A Compleat Discourse of Wounds, 1678; Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712) ; Andrew Snape (1645 c. - 1685 c.)
   Royal Society of London
   
   animal, natural, architectural, topographic, anatomical, medical, and botanical drawing, pencil on vellum, engraving, mezzotint , hand-colouring
   www.marlboroughantiques.com/shop/product.php?s=engravingbyrobertwhite1699badmintonhouse ; www.bonhams.com/auctions/17298/lot/173/
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_White_%28engraver%29
   DNB 61 (1900), Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1714 & 3887 ; A.Arber: Nehemiah Grew and Malpighi: an essay in comparison, Isis 34:7-16; DNB 61 (1900):73;
   In his autobiography, Malpighi speaks of his Anatome Plantarum, decorated with the engravings of R.W. as "the most elegant format in the whole world"
   94335191
   
   


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