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Last Name Jewitt
Given Name Thomas Orlando Sheldon
alt. Names T. O. S. ; Orlando Jewitt ;
Marriage Phoebe (1xxx-1883)
Children 3
Year born 1799 in Buxton / Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Year died 1869
Place of death Camden Square, London
Father's occupation topographer Arthur Jewitt (1772-1852)
Relatives mother: Martha Sheldon; 16 siblings: Llewellyn (1816-1886) naturalist illustrattor engraver; George letter-press printer
Education
Country of Activity United Kingdom
Worked for George Bentham (1800-1884) ; William Henry Harvey (1811-1866) ; Gottfried Christian Reich (1769-1849) ; Lovell Reeve: Land and Freshwater Mollusks (1863) ;
Patronage Joseph Harrison: Floricultural Cabinet Florists Magazine 1833
Collaborators G. B. Sowerby Jr. ; printer George Jewitt (brother) ;
Techniques natural, zoological, and malacological xylography, wood engraving, architectural drawing, copperplate engraving
Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vertigo_substriata_by_Jewitt.jpg
Archival sources
Published sources AKL ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 333 ; Cleevely 1974: 521 ;
other Further Places of Activity: Duffield and Headington Hall.
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