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Last Name Curtis

Given Name John

alt. Names J. C. ; Ruricola (pseudonym) ;

Marriage married

Children several children

Year born 1791 in Norwich, Norfolk

Year died 1862

Place of death Islington, London

Father's occupation engraver on stone and sign painter Charles Curtis (?-1795)

Relatives flower grower Frances (mother) ; engraver and painter Charles Morgan Curtis (1795-1839) (brother) ;

Education 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

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for 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) ;

Patronage Sir Joseph Banks ; Botanical Magazine ; Transactions of Linnean Society 1823; Horticultural Society; Royal Entomological Society

Collaborators James Charles Dale ; Simon Wilkin (1790-1862) ; William Elford Leach ; Pierre André Latreille ;

Techniques botanical, zoological, and entomological copperplate engraving, drawing, and watercolour ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) http://delta-intkey.com/britin/index.htm ; http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=1550&-max=25 ;

Archival sources British Museum Nat. Hist. London ; Melbourne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Curtis_(entomologist) British Natural History Museum ;

Published sources AKL 23 1999: 184 ; ThB 8 1913 ; DNB 1901 ; obituary of J. S., Royal Entomol. Soc. 1862 ; Blunt & Stearn 1955 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Lapage 1961: 46f., plate 3 ; Walpole 1969: 10 ; Sawyer 1971: 108 ; C. E. Jackson: hand-col. zool. ill. in: Arch. Nat. Hist. 38. 1 (2011): 48 ; Gilbert 2000: 6-7 & 142-3 ; Sprunger 1986: 10 ; Escardó 2022: 189

other 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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