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Last Name Heath

Given Name James

alt. Names J. H. ; Js. Heath ;

Marriage Elizabeth Thomas

Children engraver illegitimate son ->Charles Heath (1785-1848)

Year born 1757 in London

Year died 1834

Place of death London

Father's occupation bookbinder Charles Heath

Relatives

Education taught by Joseph Collyer the elder

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for John Stackhouse (1742-1819) ; George Shaw/James F Stephens: General zoology 1824/26, Matthew Baillie (1761-1823): Series Engravings 1799-1803

Patronage George III and successive monarchs ;

Collaborators engraver ->Charles Heath (son) ; artist William Clift ;

Techniques copperplate engraving, steel engraving, drawing

Sample(s) http://www.library.utoronto.ca/anatomical/RBAI055/0020-0-0.jpg , http://www.aradersf.com/stackhouseselection.html

Archival sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Heath_(engraver)

Published sources AKL ; ThB 16 1923: 191 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 617, 949, 1856, 2481 & 3837 ; John Heath: Heath family (1993) ;

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