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Last Name Giacomelli

Given Name Hector

alt. Names H. G. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1822 in Paris

Year died 1904

Place of death Menton-Caravan, Alpes-Maritimes

Father's occupation singing instructor and composer N. N. (1xxx-18xx)

Relatives

Education engraving and enchasing apprentice and draughtsman to goldsmith Eugène Marrel (1xxx-18xx), Paris ;

Country of Activity France

Worked for natural historian Jules Michelet (1798-1874): Oiseau (1867) & L'Insecte (1875) ; Mary Howitt: Sketches Nat Hist (1873) ; Sarah Trimmer: Hist Robins (1875) ; William Henry Davenport-Adams: Bird World (1877) ; Joseph B. Holder: Animate Creation (1885) ; André Theuriet: Nids (1879) & Oiseaux (1886) & Sous Bois (1883) ;

Patronage illust. for La Nature & the series: Gefiederte Welt daheim und in der Ferne 1886-9 & Aus dem Familien-Leben der Vögel 1890+

Collaborators Gustave Doré (1832-1883) ; engraver J. Huyot ; publisher Mame ;

Techniques entomological, botanical, and ornithological watercolour, gouache, drawing, ink, wood engraving, and copperplate engraving ; hand-colouring ;

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Archival sources

Published sources AKL 53 2007: 133 ; ThB 13 1920: 575 ; Dance 1989: 170-1 ; A. Blum: Picturing Nature 1993 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ;

other Worked also as a gem cutter and jeweller.

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