Samuel Hill (c. 1765 – c. 1809) was an engraver who worked in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His engravings were published...
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(died 1716), Anglican priest Samuel Hill (engraver) (c. 1765–c. 1809), engraver who worked in Boston, Massachusetts Samuel Hill (sea captain) (1777–1825)...
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Irish mezzotint engraver. He was born in Dublin about 1740. His father was Thomas Dixon, a hosier, of Cork Hill. His brother Samuel Dixon, was a watercolourist...
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Samuel Colt (/koʊlt/; July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms...
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Dixon's father was Thomas Dixon, a hosier, of Cork Hill. His brother John Dixon, was a mezzotint engraver. In 1748, he was listed as a "picture dealer and...
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Samuel Prout (/praʊt/; 17 September 1783 – 10 February 1852) was a British watercolourist, and one of the masters of watercolour architectural painting...
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John Norman (publisher) (category American engravers)
landscape engraver;' though he also did all manner of silversmith's work. He went to Boston about 1780." He died in 1817 and was buried in Copp's Hill Burying...
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Henry A. Papprill (redirect from Henry A. Papprill - Engraver)
Henry A. Papprill (1816–1903) was a British engraver. Noted as an aquatint engraver from 1840. His plates were published from 1840 till 1883 mainly by...
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in Ireland and then England where Soloman was a successful painter and engraver. Polack worked for the War Office (Commissariat and Ordnance) for four...
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Mark Twain (redirect from Samuel Clemens)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was...
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Samuel Eliot Morison (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both...
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John Anderson (born 1775) was a Scottish wood-engraver and illustrator, a pupil of the British wood-engraver Thomas Bewick. Anderson was born at Foveran...
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(1862–1939), Belgian sculptor, engraver and medalist Charlesworth Samuel (died 2008), Antiguan politician Christmas Samuel (1674–1764), Welsh Independent...
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Samuel Shelley (1750/56–1808) was an English miniaturist and watercolour painter. Largely self-educated, Samuel Shelley was a leading miniaturist, i.e...
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Edge Hill University is a campus-based public university in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. The university, which originally opened in 1885 as Edge Hill College...
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the engraver John Walker. His watercolours were influenced by Paul Sandby. Samuel also made in 1799 the designs for the illustrations to Grove Hill, a...
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure—popularly known as Fanny Hill—is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748...
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Fazio, Michael (2008). Buildings across Time. Boston: McGraw-Hill. pp. 310–311. Platner, Samuel Ball (1929). Ashby, Thomas (ed.). A Topographical Dictionary...
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Hudson Henry Newton, painter and co-founder of Winsor & Newton Samuel Noble, English engraver, and minister of the New Church Feliks Nowosielski, Polish nobleman...
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John Smith (c. 1652 – c. 1742) was an English mezzotint engraver and print seller. Closely associated with the portrait painter Godfrey Kneller, Smith...
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait...
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Boston Massacre (redirect from Samuel Maverick (apprentice))
engraver and half-brother of celebrated portrait painter John Singleton Copley, and he depicted the event in an engraving. Silversmith and engraver Paul...
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The Birmingham School of engravers emerged from the early Birmingham drawing academies of Joseph Barber and Samuel Lines in the early 19th century. By...
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William Miller (28 May 1796 – 20 January 1882) was a Scottish Quaker line engraver and watercolourist from Edinburgh. Miller became an apprentice to William...
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Samuel Dunn (1723–1794) was a British mathematician, teacher, cartographer and amateur astronomer. He was born to John and Alice Dunn in Crediton, Devonshire...
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William Thomas Fry (redirect from William Fry (engraver))
a British engraver. He occasionally exhibited his engravings at the Suffolk Street exhibition. Fry worked chiefly in stipple. He engraved four portraits...
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Bewick (1753–1828) – English wood engraver and ornithologist Thomas Stothard (1755–1834 – English painter and engraver Prince Hoare (1755–1834) – painter...
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1837, engraved by Ebenezer Challis, Exterior of Lincoln Cathedral. 1837, engraved by Samuel Lacey, Derwent Water, from the Castle Head. 1837, engraved by...
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American State (Delaware) Supreme Court justice Daniel Berger (engraver) (1744–1825), German engraver David Berger (theologian) (born 1968), German theologian...
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Journal, wife of Cyrus H. K. Curtis George Hewitt Cushman (1814-1876), engraver and painter of miniature paintings John A. Dahlgren (1809–1870), U.S. naval...
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