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*{{cite book |last=Miller|first=John Frederick| author-link=John Frederick Miller | year=1776–1785 | title=Icones animalium et plantarum |language=la | location=London | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/112488 | ref=none}} Published in 10 parts, see: {{ cite journal | last1=Sherborn | first1=C.D. | author1-link=Charles Davies Sherborn | last2=Iredale | first2=T. | author2-link=Tom Iredale | date=1921 | title=J. F. Miller's ''Icones'' | journal=Ibis | volume=3 | series=11th series | pages=302-309 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58569377 | ref=none}}
*{{cite book |last=Miller|first=John Frederick| author-link=John Frederick Miller | year=1776–1785 | title=Icones animalium et plantarum / Various subjects of Natural History, wherein are delineated Birds, Animals and many curious Plants, &c. |language=la | location=London | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/112488 | ref=none}} Published in 10 parts, see: {{ cite journal | last1=Sherborn | first1=C.D. | author1-link=Charles Davies Sherborn | last2=Iredale | first2=T. | author2-link=Tom Iredale | date=1921 | title=J. F. Miller's ''Icones'' | journal=Ibis | volume=3 | series=11th series | pages=302-309 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58569377 | ref=none}} The version available from the [[Biodiversity Heritage Library]] is missing Part 10.
* {{ cite book | last1=Miller | first1=John Frederick Miller | last2=Shaw | first2=George | date=1796 | title=Cimelia Physica : figures of rare and curious guadrupeds, birds, etc., together with several of the most elegant plants engraved & coloured, from the subjects themselves | location=London | publisher=Printed by T. Bensley for Benjamin and John White, Horace's Head, Fleet-Street, and John Sewell, Cornhill | oclc=642452311 | url=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_cimelia-physica-figures_shaw-george_1796 | ref=none}}
* {{ cite book | last1=Miller | first1=John Frederick Miller | last2=Shaw | first2=George | date=1796 | title=Cimelia Physica : figures of rare and curious guadrupeds, birds, etc., together with several of the most elegant plants engraved & coloured, from the subjects themselves | location=London | publisher=Printed by T. Bensley for Benjamin and John White, Horace's Head, Fleet-Street, and John Sewell, Cornhill | oclc=642452311 | url=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_cimelia-physica-figures_shaw-george_1796 | ref=none}}



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John Frederick Miller (1759–1796) was an English illustrator, mainly of botanical subjects.

Miller was the son of the artist Johann Sebastian Müller (1715 – c. 1790). Miller, along with his brother James,[1] produced paintings from the sketches made by Sydney Parkinson on James Cook's first voyage.[2] He accompanied Joseph Banks on his expedition to Iceland in 1772.[3]

figure from Cimelia Physica

Miller published Cimelia Physica. Figures of rare and curious quadrupeds, birds, &c. together with several of the most elegant plants (1796) with text by George Shaw.

Works

  • Miller, John Frederick (1776–1785). Icones animalium et plantarum / Various subjects of Natural History, wherein are delineated Birds, Animals and many curious Plants, &c (in Latin). London. Published in 10 parts, see: Sherborn, C.D.; Iredale, T. (1921). "J. F. Miller's Icones". Ibis. 11th series. 3: 302–309. The version available from the Biodiversity Heritage Library is missing Part 10.
  • Miller, John Frederick Miller; Shaw, George (1796). Cimelia Physica : figures of rare and curious guadrupeds, birds, etc., together with several of the most elegant plants engraved & coloured, from the subjects themselves. London: Printed by T. Bensley for Benjamin and John White, Horace's Head, Fleet-Street, and John Sewell, Cornhill. OCLC 642452311.

References

  1. ^ "Miller, James (fl. 1770s)". biography. Australian National Herbarium. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
  2. ^ "Miller, John Frederick (1759-1796)". biography. Australian National Herbarium. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
  3. ^ Walters, Michael (2009). "The identity of the birds depicted in Shaw and Miller's Cimelia physica". Archives of Natural History. 36 (2): 316–326. doi:10.3366/E0260954109001016.