Eleazar Albin
Eleazar Albin (* around 1690; † around 1742 or 1759) was a British naturalist and watercolorist.
Life
His exact birth and death dates are unknown. He is known for watercolors and books on birds and insects.
He was a drawing teacher in London and was taught natural history by the silk weaver and amateur entomologist Joseph Dandridge (1665–1747), from whom he also used texts in his work on insects.
He is known for his natural history of birds and insects. The text on the natural history of birds came from William Derham (1657-1735). The book was one of the earliest books to accurately depict birds. He had the templates from the private collections of aristocrats such as the Duke of Chandos and Sir Thomas Lowther (1699–1745) and in the foreword he called on readers to present him with further copies in order to copy them.
His daughter Elizabeth was also a natural history illustrator and contributed illustrations to Albin's natural history of birds.
Fonts
- A Natural History of English Insects, London: William and John Innys 1720, digitized University of Göttingen , 2nd edition with annotations by William Derham 1724, 3rd edition in Latin 1731, 4th edition 1749
- A Natural History of Birds, 3 volumes, London 1731, 1734, 1738 (text William Derham), volume 1,2, digitized, University of Göttingen , 2nd edition 1738 to 1740
- French translation The Hague 1750
- The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects, London: Tilly 1736
- A Natural History of English Songbirds, London 1737, further editions until 1779
- The history of esculent fish, London 1794 (text Roger North), Archives
literature
- P. Gilbert: Butterfly Collectors and Painters. Four centuries of color plates from The Library Collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Singapore, Beaumont Publishing 2000
- Michael A. Salmon: The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors, University of California Press 2000, p. 109
- AA Lisney: A Bibliography of British Lepidoptera 1608–1799, London 1960
Web links
- Albin, A natural history of birds, Virtual Exhibition, University of Glasgow
- Senckenberg biographies of the world's entomologists
References and comments
- ↑ Date of death around 1742 according to Peter Osborne, Eleazar Albin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. Ernest Radford states in the older Dictionary of National Biography 1759 and that it was detectable from 1713 onwards.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albin, Eleazar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1690 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1742 or 1759 |