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Last Name Swan
Given Name Joseph
alt. Names J. S. ;
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Year born 1796
Year died 1872
Place of death Glasgow ?
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Country of Activity United Kingdom
Worked for William Jackson Hooker & Joseph Hooker: Exotic Flora (1821-1827) & Botanical Miscellany (1830-1833) ; Curtis's Botanical Magazine ; Robert Kaye Greville (1794-1866) ;
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Collaborators Indian artist -> Rungiah for hand-coloured plates in Botanical Miscellany (1832) ; draughtsman J. Fleming ; Franz Bauer ;
Techniques landscape, botanical, and natural engraving, and aquatint ; hand-colouring ;
Sample(s) www.heatons-of-tisbury.co.uk/sargyll.htm ; http://talk.sciencegossip.org/#/subjects/ASC0002yxm & biodiversitylibrary.org/page/747260#page/362/mode/1up
Archival sources www.scharlau.co.uk/scharlau.co.uk/Prints?action=dictionarySearch&artist=s ; https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/swan-joseph.html ;
Published sources Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Henry J. Noltie: Robert Wright & illustrators of Indian Botany, in: Linnean Society, Special Issue 6 (2006): 14 ; Becker 2015: 154 ;
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