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Last Name Kearny

Given Name Francis

alt. Names F. K. ; Kearney ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1785 Perth Amboy, NJ

Year died 1837

Place of death Perth Amboy, NJ

Father's occupation

Relatives Captain James Lawrence (?-?) (uncle)

Education engraver Peter R. Maverick in New York, drawing from Archibald & Alexander Robertson

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Benjamin Smith Barton: Flora North America (1820-3) ; Charles Alexander Lesueur (1778-1846) ; William Paul Crillon Barton (1786-1856) ; John Davidson Godman (1794-1830): Amer. Nat. Hist. 1826-8 ; Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) ;

Patronage Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1817-1842)

Collaborators engraver C. Tiebout ;

Techniques botanical and natural copperplate engraving, marine painting, etching, and lithography ;

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Kearney ;

Archival sources

Published sources AKL ; ThB 20 1927: 49f. ; Nagler VI ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ##1600,1624 & 4650 ; A. Blum: Picturing Nature 1993 ; Bridson 2003: 13 & 153 ;

other 1810-33 Philadelphia; 1833 New York City, NY.

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