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Last Name Emslie

Given Name John

alt. Names J. E. ;

Marriage

Children possibly topographical artist & folklorist John Phillipps Emslie 1839-1913, see below under relatives

Year born 1813 or 1818

Year died 1875

Place of death

Father's occupation

Relatives possibly the English painter and engraver John Phillipps Emslie (1839-1913)

Education

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for publisher & amateur geologist John Reynolds: Popular Geology (London 1849) ; The Earth and its Atmosphere (London 1849); Milner: A Descriptive Atlas of Astronomy & of Physical & Political Geography (c. 1860) ;

Patronage

Collaborators printer & publisher James Reynolds, London ;

Techniques astronomical, technical, geological, and paleontological engraving; geographic map-making

Sample(s) www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_213923/John-Emslie/Diagram-of-Natural-Phenomena

Archival sources http://richardsmithrarebooks.com/?s=John+Emslie ; cf. richardsmithrarebooks.com/products-page/astronomy/the-sun-and-solar-phenomena-by-john-emslie/

Published sources Klingender 1968/74: 71 & 249 ; Benezit dictionary of artists, 2006 ; Davidson 2008: 60 ; Escardó 2022: 18f.;

other London-based mapmaker & illustrator; cf. www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/hand-coloured-engraved-plate-by-john-emslie-nachrichtenfoto/90772541.

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