Peter Brown (naturalist)

Peter Brown (active 1758–1799) was an

Life and work

Brown was an associate of the great English naturalists

Published works

Brown illustrated Emanuel Mendes da Costa's book, Elements of Conchology, or An Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells (1771).^[2]

In 1776, Brown published his own work, New illustrations of Zoology,^[2] "containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript birds, with a few quadrupeds, reptiles and insects. Together with a short and scientific description of the same", published in London by White, and in French as "Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie, contenant cinquante planches enluminées d'oiseaux curieux, et qui non etés jamais descrits, et quelques de quadrupedes, de reptiles et d'insectes, avec de courtes descriptions systematiques".

Brown contributed to Pennant's Arctic Zoology (1784–1785).^[2]

Exhibitions and distinctions

Brown exhibited at the

• Papilio dardanus

References

Sources

• Blunt, W. (1951). The Art of Botanical Illustration. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 151.
• Whitehead, P.J.P. (1977) Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717–91) and the Conchology, or natural history of shells. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Historical Series, Vol.6 (1) pp 1–24.

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Brown, Peter". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

• Zoologica GDZ Full digitised Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie
• polybiblio.com—accessed 3 June 2007
• National Gallery of Australia—accessed 3 June 2007
• Lepidoptera and some other life forms, account for genus Haploa—accessed 3 June 2007