engraver on stone and sign painter Charles Curtis (?-1795)
flower grower Frances (mother) ; engraver and painter Charles Morgan Curtis (1795-1839) (brother) ;
taught by his father & naturalist Richard Walker (1791-1870) ; pupil of engr. Mr. Edwards of Bungay/Suffolk; earned his living in a lawyer's office
United Kingdom
William Kirby & William Spence: Introduction to Entomology (1815-26) ; J. Curtis: British Entomology (16 vols., 1834-39) & Farm Insects (1860/83) ; T. Horsfield: Plantae Javanicae (1822) ; Zoological Researches in Java (1824) ; Bennett & Browne: Plantae Java rariores ; Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (London 1807-12) ; Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (as successor of ->Sydenham Edwards (1769?-1819) ;
Sir Joseph Banks ; Botanical Magazine ; Transactions of Linnean Society 1823; Horticultural Society; Royal Entomological Society
James Charles Dale ; Simon Wilkin (1790-1862) ; William Elford Leach ; Pierre André Latreille ;
botanical, zoological, and entomological copperplate engraving, drawing, and watercolour ; hand-colouring ;
Entomologist, artist, author, and butterfly collector (he collected butterflies in Sotland, Ireland, and central Europe) who learnt engraving deliberately so that he could produce his own plates. See also http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=161&mobile=0
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