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 watercolor painting ; 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