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   Kilburn
   William
   W. K ; Will Kilburn ;
   
   
   1745 in Baile Átha Cliath, Dublin
   1818
   Wallington, Surrey
   architect in Dublin
   
   apprentice to calico printmaker John Lisson in Leixlip near Dublin ; self-taught
   United Kingdom
   botanist and entomologist William Curtis (1746-1799): Flora Londinensis (6 volumes, London 1774 / 77-99) ; Botanical Magazine (1787ff.) ; J. S. Miller: Illustratis systematis sexualis Linnaei (1777) ; W. Withering: Foxglove ;
   Curtis's Botanical Magazine ;
   illustrator ->James Sowerby (1757-1822) ; illustrator Sydenham Teak Edwards (1769 ? -1819) ; engraver ->Francis Sansom ;
   botanical drawing, aquatint, copperplate engraving, etching, and painting ; calico printing ;
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kilburn#/media/File:William_Kilburn00.jpg ; http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Curtis ;
   http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=2600&-max=25 ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kilburn ; ...
   DNB 5: 349 ; AKL ; ThB 20 1927: 287 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 # 439 ; Walpole 1969: 6 ; Cleevely 1974: 485 ; Lack 1987: 104f. ; Butler 2000 ; Henderson 2015: 24 ; Becker 2015: 158 ;
   Further archival sources: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=9175&-max=25 and http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=380&mobile=0 and https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/kilburn-william.html .
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