medical doctor / physician Alexander Blackwell (1700 c. -1747) ;
several
1707 ? 1700? in Aberdeen, Scotland
1758 (?) /1774
Chelsea
wealthy merchant William Blachrie
Alexander Blackwell (who was executed in 1747 after charges of treason), became a printer in 1730, and was later imprisoned for debt
moved to London in 1726 together with Alexander Blackwell; trained as a midwife
Scotland, UK
A Curious Herbal 1737-9 [2nd. ed. by C. J. Trew: Herbarium Blackwellianum 1750-73 w. pl. by -> Eisenberger & -> Lichtensteger, renamed Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum] ; Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), president of the Royal Society; physician Richard Mead (1673-1754) ; plant catalogue of the Chelsea botanical garden for Isaac Rand (?-1743);
Royal College of Physicians ; Dr. Mead, Chelsea Pharmacists' Union & Mr. Rand, curator of Chelsea Physic Garden; Sir Hans Sloane; Dr. Mead,
Alexander Blackwell on 500 plates ; Nikolaus Friedrich Eisenberger ;
botanical drawing and copperplate engraving ; hand colouring ;
DNB 2: 604-6 ; Oxford DNB 6 (2004): 22f.; AKL 11 1995: 328 ; ThB 4 1910: 81 ; Nissen 1966 #169 ; Thomas Schnalke: Natur im Bild 1995: 17ff. ; Jack Kramer 1996: 72f. ; Saunders 1995 ; Chansigaud: Histoire 2009 ; Bruce Madge: E. B. - Forgotten Herbalist? 2000; Peter Heilmann: Kräuterbuch der E. B., Dortmund 1983 ; Lack 1987: 88f. ; Briefnetz 2009: 611, 616, 625; Becker 2015: 114-115 ;
E. B. was active in London ; see also www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/blackwells/blackwells_broadband.htm?top and www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/print_culture/sales.html and http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=1434&mobile=0 ;
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