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Last Name Michell

Given Name Jean Baptiste

alt. Names J.-B. M. ; Jean-Bapt. Michel / Michel;

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Year born 1748 in Paris

Year died 1804

Place of death London

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Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for Joseph Banks & Daniel Carl Solander: Banks Florilegium 1771-84; obstetrician William Hunter: Anatomia uteri (1774: plate 16) ; George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) ; James Cook (1728-1779) ; Philippe Etienne Lafosse (fils) (1738-1820) ;

Patronage James Cook

Collaborators ->Edward Edwards; ->Sydney Parkinson; see www.alectouk.com/Banks_history.htm on other artists & ewngravers involved in Banks Florilegium

Techniques botanical, animal, and natural copperplate engraving and drawing ;

Sample(s) http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/art-nature-imaging/collections/endeavour-botanical/detail.dsml?IMAGNO=004137 ;

Archival sources British Museum Natural History, London: www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/art-nature-imaging/collections/endeavour-botanical/indexadv.dsml ; ...

Published sources AKL ; Blunt & Stearn ; Choulant 1920: 296 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 672, 948 & 2360 ;

other Finishing of James Cook's Endeavour exped. sketches in London.

Further archival source: https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/michell-jean-baptiste.html .

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