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Last Name Annin

Given Name William B.

alt. Names W. B. A. ;

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Year born 1791 c.

Year died 1858 c.

Place of death Boston, Massachusetts

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Education probably pupil of Abel Bowen

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Jacob Bigelow: American Medical Botany (1817-20) ; J. R. Coxe: Morse's American Geography (1813) ; John Locke & James Edward Smith: Outlines botany (1819) ; Valeriano Luigi Brera: Verminous diseases (1817) ; John Gorham: Elements Chemical Science (1819-20) ; Gilman Joslin: 6-inch terrestrial globe (1840) ; Josiah Loring ;

Patronage c. 1818-37 Annin & Smith Boston

Collaborators engraver George Girdler Smith ; engraver Abel Bowen ; lithographer Moses Swett ; successor: lithographer William S. Pendleton ;

Techniques botanical, medical, cartographical, and natural aquatint, etching, engraving, cartography, lithography, and globe-making ; portraits

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1820_60_AmericanMedicalBotany_engr_byAnnin_and_Smith_3542676899.jpg

Archival sources Harvard Hist Scientific Instruments; Osher; Loring's terrestrial globe: Currier Museum of Art:http://collections.currier.org/Obj11355?sid=514&x=1612

Published sources AKL 4 1992: 163 ; Norht Amer. Review Misc. Journal 9 1819: 23-6 ; Catalogue Exhibition Early Amer Engraving upon Copper (1908: 7) ; Richard J. Wolfe: Bigelow's American Medical Botany (1979) ;

other Fl. in Boston 1813-39 ; worked with Bowen 1813 ; patent no. 4422X of 4 May 1826: Making the inner body of artificial globes.

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