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Last Name Lawson

Given Name Helen Elizabeth °

alt. Names H. E. L. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1808 c. in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Year died 1853

Place of death Philadelphia, USA

Father's occupation engraver Alexander Lawson (1772-1846)

Relatives

Education

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Amos Binney (1803-1847): Terrest. Mollusks US ; Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812-1880) ; entomologist and conchologist Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812-1880) ; Alexander Wilson ; George Ord ;

Patronage

Collaborators with his father ; brother Oscar ;

Techniques marine and malacological drawing, engraving, painting, watercolour, lithography, and etching ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) http://www.ansp.org/research/library/archives/0900-0999/lawson912/ ;

Archival sources Library of Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, PA ;

Published sources AKL ; Wilson: American Ornithology ; A. Blum: Picturing Nature 1993 ; Nissen: Zooolog. Buchillustriation 1969/78 ## 368, 1802 & 4592 ;

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