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Last Name Albin

Given Name Fortin

alt. Names F. A. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1705 c.

Year died

Place of death

Father's occupation professional teacher of water-colour drawing and naturalist artist -> Eleazar Albin

Relatives engraver ->Elizabeth Albin, poosibly an elder sister of Fortin

Education taught by -Eleazar Albin

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for Eleazar Albin: Albin's Histories of birds (1731-8), insects (1736), and spiders ; Roger North (1653-1734): History of Esculent fish. Discourse of Fish & Fish-ponds (London 1794) ;

Patronage

Collaborators engraver -> Eleazar Albin ; handcolorist ->Elizabeth Albin ;

Techniques zoological, entomological, ornithological, arachnological, ichthyological, and natural drawing, and engraving ; hand colouring ;

Sample(s) http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=all&CISOBOX1=fish&CISOFIELD1=subjec&CISOOP2=all&CISOBOX2=albin%2C+eleazar%2C+fl+1713-1759 ;

Archival sources http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Albin,_Eleazar_%28DNB00%29 ;

Published sources Jackson 1989: 69 ; Chansigaud 2009: 62 ;

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