E. C. Knight (1879
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illustrator
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. He undertook zoological entomological and botanical drawing,
lithography
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, and
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for
William Weekes Fowler
William Weekes Fowler (January 1849 – 3 June 1923 ) was an English clergyman and entomologist mainly interested in beetles.
Biography
Son of the Reverend Hugh Fowler, Vicar of Barnwood, Gloucestershire, Fowler was educated at Rugby School and ...
,
Frederic Moore
Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company.
It has been said that Mo ...
,
Edmund Reitter
Edmund Reitter (22 October 1845 – 15 March 1920) was an Austrian entomologist, writer and a collector.
Biography
Edmund Reitter was best known as an expert on the beetles of the Palaearctic. He was an imperial advisor and editor of the ...
and
Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe
Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe, born on 11 December 1868, was an English entomologist, colourist and illustrator
Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe was the eldest of ten daughters of Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909) and Emily Eliza Sharpe (née Burrows; ...
among others. Knight worked in association with the
Zoological Society of London
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History
On 29 ...
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E. C. and his brother
Horace Knight worked for Messrs. West, Newman & Co., in London.
References
Database of Illustrators University of Stuttgart
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