John Frederick Miller
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]
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
- ^ "Miller, James (fl. 1770s)". biography. Australian National Herbarium. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
- ^ "Miller, John Frederick (1759-1796)". biography. Australian National Herbarium. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
- ^ 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.
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