E. C. Knight (illustrator)

E. C. Knight (1879 fl. -1915 fl.) was an English illustrator. He undertook zoological entomological and botanical drawing, lithography, and chromolithography for William Weekes Fowler, Frederic Moore, Edmund Reitter and Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe among others. Knight worked in association with the Zoological Society of London.

Plate from The Coleoptera of the British islands E. C. Knight del. lith.

E. C. and his brother Horace Knight worked for Messrs. West, Newman & Co., in London.[1]

References

edit
  1. ^ Ormerod, Eleanor (1904). "Commencement and Progress of Annual Report of Observations of Injurious Insects". In Wallace, Robert (ed.). Economic Entomologist: Autobiography and Correspondence. New York: E. P. Dutton. p. 63. I engaged the valuable assistance of two brothers [...] Messr. Horace Knight and E. C. Knight

Database of Illustrators University of Stuttgart

Further reading

edit
  • Nissen, Claus (1971). "Lieferung 9". Die Zoologische Buchillustration. Ihre Bibliographie und Geschichte. Vol. II: Geschichte. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann.