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Details of this illustrator << Previous Next >> | 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 & 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 watercolor, gouache, drawing, ink, wood engraving, copperplate engraving, and enchasing ; hand-coloring, | | Sample(s) | | | 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. | | viaf1 | 54185583 | | viaf2 | | | viaf3 | |
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