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Last Name Stewart

Given Name James Hope

alt. Names J. H. S. ; J. Stewart / I. Stewart ;

Marriage Helen Bell (1792-1864) in c. 1816

Children 12: 10 sons, 2 daughters

Year born 1789 in Hillside

Year died 1856

Place of death Gillenbie near Lockerbie

Father's occupation William Stewart of Hillhead

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Country of Activity Scotland, UK

Worked for William Jardine & Prideaux John Selby: Illustrations British Ornithology (1826-43) ; W. Jardine: Duck Tribe (1839), Gallinaceous Birds (1834), Parrots (1836), Birds GB Ireland (1838-43) ; Charles Bell: System of Dissections (1799-1805) & Engravings of Arteries (1806) ;

Patronage 177 signed plates for Jardine's 40-vol. Naturalists Library series

Collaborators etcher W. H. Lizars ; artist C. Cheyne ; artist Charles Bell ; engraver J. Grant ;

Techniques ornithological, anatomical, and zoological painting, watercolour painting, and drawing ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) http://www.library.utoronto.ca/anatomical/RBAI063/0021-0-0.jpg ;

Archival sources British Museum of Natural History ; Edinburgh National Library Scotland ;

Published sources Sawyer 1971: 189 ; Jackson 1989: 217, 220-1 & 228 ; Jackson: on JHS, in: Arch. Nat. Hist. 21 1994: 37-42 ; Jackson Dict. Bird Artists 1999: 450 ;

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