Artist Biographies

• John Tallis: Mapmaker

  John Tallis  is considered to be one of the most renowned cartographers and publisher of the 19th century. His work is considered to be the last of the lavishly decorated and ornamental maps. They are works of art as much of geography.   John was born in Stourbridge in Worcestershire about 1818 and it is possible he stayed working in the Midlands as a publisher in Birmingham, until he moved to London in the early 1840′s. He set up the first of his publishing businesses in Cripplegate, with Frederick Tallis, who was quite possibly his brother. This business lasted from...

• Alexander Wilson

  1766-1813
  American Ornithology

• Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

  1683-1741
  Phytanthoza Iconographia

• Martin Waldseemüller

  1470-1521
  Mapmaker

• Amerigo Vespucci

  1451-1512
  Explorer

• Louis Benoit van Houtte

  1810-1876
  Flowers

• Christoph Jacob Trew

  1695-1769
  Plantae Selectae & Herbarium Blackwellianum

• J. & F. Tallis

  1851
  The Illustrated Atlas

• Emanuel Sweert

  1612-1649
  Florilegium

• John Speed

   

• Sir Hans Sloane

  1660-1753
  Naturalist

• William Sherard

  1659-1728
  Botanist

• Mattheus Seutter

  1678-1757
  Mapmaker

• Jeremiah Seller

  Late 1600's-early 1700's
  Mapmaker

• Pieter Schenk

  1645-1715
  Mapmaker

• M. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

  France,1772-1844
  Glossary Histoire Naturelle Des Mammiferes

• Georgius Everhardus Rumphius

  1627-1702
  Shells

• Pierre-Joseph Redouté

  1759-1840
  The Flowers

• Abraham Ortelius

  1527-1598.
  Mapmaker

• Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny

  1802 -1857
  Natural History

• Abraham Munting

  1626-1683
  Naauwkeurige Beschryving Der Aardgewassen (Accurate Description of Terrestrial Plants)

• Sebastian Münster

  1489-1552
  Mapmaker

• Henry Mouzon

  1741-1807
  Mapmaker

• Henry Moses

  1782-1870
  Ancent Vases

• Herman Moll

  1654-1732
  Mapmaker

• Charles Theodore Middleton

  1778
  A NEW and COMPLETE SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY

• Francois Andre Michaux

  1770-1855
  North American Silva

• Andre Michaux

  1746-1802
  North American Oaks

• Gerard Mercator

  1512-1594
  Mapmaker

• Allain Manesson Mallet

  1630-1706 
  Description De L'Univers

• Jane Webb Loudon

  1807-1858

• John Lindley

  1799-1865 

• Francoise Levaillant

  1753-1825 
  Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux  

• Hendrik De Leth

  Het Zegenpralent Kennemerlant

• Jean Le Pautre

  1618-1682
  Ornaments

• Thomas Kitchin

  1718 - 1784
  Mapmaker

• Johannes Kip

  1653-1722
  Views in Prospective 

• James Jenkins

  The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the year 1793 to 1817 
  

• Thomas Jefferys

  1710-1771
  Mapmaker

• Carl Gustav Jablonsky

  1756-1787
  Butterflies

• Da Pietro Hughes

  1831
  Storia Naturale

• Hortus Sanitatis

  1517
  The Origin of Health

• Johann Baptist Homann

  1663-1724
  Mapmaker

• Franz Hogenberg

  1600-1667
  Mapmaker & City Views

• Sir William Jackson Hooker

  1785-1865
  Botanicals

• John Hill

  1714-1775 

• Robert Havell Sr.

  1760-1832
  Printmaker

• Robert Havell Jr.

  1793-1878
  Printmaker

• Niccolò Gualtieri

  1688-1744
  Thesaurus Imaginum Picium Testaceorum

• John Gould

  1804-1881
  The Birds

• Elizabeth Gould

  1804-1841
  Bird Artist

• Dr. Alexander Garden

  1730-1791
  Naturalist

• Frederick William Frohawk

  1861-1946
  Bird Eggs

• Gaudenzio Ferrari

  1646
  Hesperides

• William Faden

  1750
  Map- maker

• Henry John Elwes

  1846-1922
  Monograph of the Genus Lilum

• Georg Dionysius Ehret

  1708-1770
  Botanical Artist

• Sydenham Edward

  1784-1863
  The Botanical Register

• George Edwards

  1694-1773
  Natural History of Birds

• Peter S.Duval

  1805-1886
  Lithographer

• Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau

  1700-1782
  Fruit Prints

• Dru Drury

  1725-1804
  Illustrations of Exotic Entomology

• Edward Donovin

  Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China

• Guillaume Delisle

  1675-1726
  Mapmaker

• Claude Delisle

  1644-1720
  Mapmaker

• Theodor de Bry

  1528-1598
  Florilegium novum

• JohannTheodor de Bry

  Indians of North America

• William Curtis

  1746-1799
  Flora Londinesis and the Botanical Magazine

• Captain James Cook

  1728-1779
  Cooks Voyages
  

• Philipp Cluver

  1580-1622 
  Mapmaker
  

• Edward Crisp

  Mapmaker 

• Johannes Commelin

  1629-1692
  Horti Malabarici

• Christopher Columbus

  1451-1506
  Explorer

• Sir Henry Chauncy

  1680-1741
  The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire.

• Prince Guillaume Marquis Et Comte De NewCastle, Segneur De Cavendish

  1737
  Methode Et Invention Nouvelle De Dresser Les Chevaux

• Mark Catesby

  1647-1749
  The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands

• Samuel & Nathaniel Buck

  Antiquities 

• Pierre Joseph Buchoz

  1731-1807
  Histoire Universelle Du Regne Vegetal
  

• Thomas Brown

  1785-1862 

• George Brookshaw

  1759-1840
  Pomola Britannica

• Georg Braun

  1535-1595
  Mapmaker & City Views

• Henry Riley Bradbury

  1831-1861
  Sea Weeds & Ferns

• Thomas Bowen

  1700-1763
  Mapmaker

• Emanuel Bowen

  1720-1767
  Mapmaker

• Rigobert Bonne

  1727-1795
  Mapmaker

• Marc Elieser Bloch

  1723-1799
  Ichyologie

• Elizabeth Blackwell

  London,1707-1759

• Willem Janszoon Blaeu

  1571-1638
  Mapmaker

• Joan Blaeu

  1599-1673
  Mapmaker

• Pancrae Bessa

  1772-1832
  Name of Book

• Basilius Besler

  1561-1629
  Hortus Eystettensis

• Pieter Bertius

  1565-1629
  Mapmaker 

• Abbé Laurent Berlese

  1784-1863
  Iconographie Du Genre Camellia 

• Jacques Nicolas Bellin

  1703-1772
  Mapmaker

• Sir Joseph Banks

  1743-1820
  Banks Florilegm
  

• John. J. Audubon

  1785-1851
  Birds of America
  

• Jean Baptiste Audebert

  1759-1800 
  Historie naturelle et generale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches
  

• Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

  1891 
  Title Page and Preface

• Aaron Arrowsmith

  1750-1833 
  Mapmaker
  

• Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville

  1697-1782.
  Mapmaker  

• Antiquarian Threads

  1962-present 
  Jewelry
  

• Da Carlo Antionini

  Manuale Di Varj Ornamenti

• Henry Charles Andrews

  1799-1828
  Botanical Books

• Thomas Allom

  1804-1872
  China Illustrated

• Eleazar Albin

  1680-1741
  A Natural History of Birds
  

• John Abbot

  1751-1840
  The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia
  

• Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville

  1600-1667
  Mapmaker 

• Maria Sybillia Merian

  1647-1717
  Insects

• Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  1707-1788
  Histoire Naturelle

• Crispijn van de Passe

  1593-1667
  Horti Floridi