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Last Name Milton

Given Name Thomas

alt. Names T. M. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1743 England

Year died 1827

Place of death Bristol, Avon

Father's occupation marine painter John Milton (fl. 1753-77)

Relatives

Education probably pupil of engr. William Woollett (1735-85)

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for Elizabeth & Sarah May Fitton: Conversations on Botany (1817) ; Catalogue of Ichthyology (1813) ; Robert Ainslie: Views of Egypt (1801) ; Abraham Rees: Cyclopaedia (1802-22, 200 plates) ; botanist James Edward Smith ; Abraham Rees (1743-1825): The Cyclopedia (1802-1820: 1 botanical engraving after a drawing of Sydenham Teast Edwards (1768-1819)) ;

Patronage Society of Engravers

Collaborators (erroneously: James de Carle Sowerby) ; Luigi Mayer ; engraver Wilson Lowry, ; engraver Aaron Arrowsmith ; engraver William Blake ;

Techniques botanical, geographical, topographical, meteorological, landscape, ichthyological, and natural copperplate engraving, aquatint, etching, and drawing ;

Sample(s) britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=829755&objectId=3272785&partId=1 ;

Archival sources British Museum ; https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/milton.html ;

Published sources AKL ; DNB 1894 ; Cleevely 1974: 546 ; Boris Jardine: Made real, Science Museum Group Journal 2 (2014): fig. 14 ;

other Further Places of Activity: London and Ireland (1783 in Dublin).

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