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Last Name Hewitson

Given Name William Chapman

alt. Names W. C. H. ;

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Year born 1806 in Newcastle on Tyne

Year died 1878

Place of death Oatlands

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Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for Edward Doubleday (1810-1849) ; Exotic butterflies ( London 1851) ; Illustrations of diurnal lepidoptera (London 1862) ; Frederic Moore (1830-1907) ; Proceedings of the scientific meetings [...] of the Zoological Societey of London (London 1830/33-1964) ;

Patronage pl. in the Transactions of the Entomologcial Society of London (1807-1812) ;

Collaborators lithographer->Robert Rippon ;

Techniques zoological and entomological drawing and lithography ; hand-colouring

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IllustrationsDiurnalLepidopteraPlate2.jpg

Archival sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chapman_Hewitson

Published sources J. W. Dunning: Obituary in The Entomologist 11(1878): 166-8 ; D. Embleton in: Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland 7(1880): 223-35 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1150, 1930f., 2878, 4744 & 4784 ; Gilbert 2000: 60-1, 82-3 ;

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