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Last Name Whymper

Given Name Edward J.

alt. Names E. J. W. ; E. / Eduard / Edouard Whimper ;

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Children

Year born 1840 in London, England

Year died 1911

Place of death Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Haute Savoie

Father's occupation wood engraver Josiah Wood Whymper

Relatives illustrator siblings: Frederick, Charles H. & Annette S.

Education taught by father

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1852-1933) ; Frédérick Whymper (1838-1901) ; (Joseph Wolf: Life Habits Wild Animals 1873-4; Florence Crauford Groves: Frosty Caucasus 1875; Yarells History British Birds 1871-89, Birds of Egypt 1909; DG Elliott; Edward Shirley Kennedy: Peaks Passes & Glaciers 1862; E Whymper: Scrambles among Alps 1860-9, guides: Chamonix 1896, Zermatt 1897 ; Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator (London 1892) ;

Patronage Alpine Journal; Alpine Club London ;

Collaborators father J. W. Whymper, William Dickes ; artist ->Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) ; Emily Bolingbroke ;

Techniques botanical, natural, and zoological wood engraving, drawing, watercolour, hand-colouring

Sample(s) www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/whymper/ ;

Archival sources British Museum Natural History London ;

Published sources Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1761, 4396 & 4397 ; AKL; ThB35 1942:503; Sawyer 1971:199; Debus: 4-5; Güttler 2014: fig. IV/6 ;

other Further Places of Activity: Alps, Greenland, Ecuador, Andes, and Canada. Topography & scenery; famous mountaineer; book illustration.

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