John Anderson (engraver)
John Anderson (born 1775) was a Scottish wood-engraver and illustrator, a pupil of the British wood-engraver Thomas Bewick. Life Anderson was born at Foveran in Scotland in 1775, the son of James Anderson of Hermiston. He was a pupil of Thomas Bewick, taken on at his father's wish to help with illustration of a periodical, ''The Bee''. The relationship with Bewick ended acrimoniously, however, and by the later 1790s he was working for London printers. He went abroad by 1805, and died by 1808. Works Anderson cut (after drawings by George Samuel) the blocks which illustrate ''Grove Hill'', a 1799 poem by Thomas Maurice. It was sumptuously issued by Thomas Bensley in 1799, in a book that has been compared with William Somervile's ''The Chace''. Anderson, with ''Shakespeare's Walk'' in the book, almost equals Bewick, according to Ernest Radford writing in the ''Dictionary of National Biography'', and his treatment of foliage is reminiscent of the prints in Robert Bloomfield's ''Farm ...
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Natural History Of Selborne Title Page Engraving By John Anderson
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physics, physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomenon, phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood as a separate category from other natural phenomena. The word ''nature'' is borrowed from the Old French ''nature'' and is derived from the Latin word ''natura'', or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". In ancient philosophy, ''natura'' is mostly used as the Latin translation of the Greek word ''physis'' (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics of plants, animals, and other features of the world to develop of their own accord. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word � ...
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