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   Curtis
   John
   J. C. ; Ruricola (pseudonym) ;
   married
   several children
   1791 in Norwich, Norfolk
   1862
   Islington, London
   engraver on stone and sign painter Charles Curtis (?-1795)
   flower grower Frances (mother) ; engraver and painter Charles Morgan Curtis (1795-1839) (brother) ;
   taught by his father & naturalist Richard Walker (1791-1870) ; pupil of engr. Mr. Edwards of Bungay/Suffolk; earned his living in a lawyer's office
   United Kingdom
   William Kirby & William Spence: Introduction to Entomology (1815-26) ; J. Curtis: British Entomology (16 vols., 1834-39) & Farm Insects (1860/83) ; T. Horsfield: Plantae Javanicae (1822) ; Zoological Researches in Java (1824) ; Bennett & Browne: Plantae Java rariores ; Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (London 1807-12) ; Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (as successor of ->Sydenham Edwards (1769?-1819) ;
   Sir Joseph Banks ; Botanical Magazine ; Transactions of Linnean Society 1823; Horticultural Society; Royal Entomological Society
   James Charles Dale ; Simon Wilkin (1790-1862) ; William Elford Leach ; Pierre André Latreille ;
   botanical, zoological, and entomological copperplate engraving, drawing, and watercolour ; hand-colouring ;
   http://delta-intkey.com/britin/index.htm ; http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=1550&-max=25 ;
   British Museum Nat. Hist. London ; Melbourne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Curtis_(entomologist) British Natural History Museum ;
   AKL 23 1999: 184 ; ThB 8 1913 ; DNB 1901 ; obituary of J. S., Royal Entomol. Soc. 1862 ; Blunt & Stearn 1955 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Lapage 1961: 46f., plate 3 ; Walpole 1969: 10 ; Sawyer 1971: 108 ; C. E. Jackson: hand-col. zool. ill. in: Arch. Nat. Hist. 38. 1 (2011): 48 ; Gilbert 2000: 6-7 & 142-3 ; Sprunger 1986: 10 ; Escardó 2022: 189
   Entomologist, artist, author, and butterfly collector (he collected butterflies in Sotland, Ireland, and central Europe) who learnt engraving deliberately so that he could produce his own plates. See also http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=161&mobile=0
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