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Biographies • Illustration — Engraving from the Royal Illustrated Atlas George Heriot Swanston (7 May 1814 in Edinburgh –?) was a Scottish map engraver, particularly noted for his engravings and vignettes illustrating Archibald Fullarton & Co's Royal Illustrated Atlas in the 1860s. He often collaborated with another Scot, the cartographer John Bartholomew. George Heriot was the son of George Swanston who had married Margaret Heriot on 2 November 1807 at Canongate in Edinburgh.

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Portion of A. Fullarton map "Abessinia and the Adjacent Countries" from the atlas "Royal Illustrated Atlas of Modern Geography" published in Edinburgh 1864-1872

Augustus Heinrich Petermann (1822 – 1878), George Heriot Swanston (1814-?) · http: sort=Pub_Date,Pub_List_No_InitialSort · Public domain

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George Heriot Swanston.
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1814.

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Biographies • Illustration — Engraving from the Royal Illustrated Atlas George Heriot Swanston (7 May 1814 in Edinburgh –?) was a Scottish map engraver, particularly noted for his engravings and vignettes illustrating Archibald Fullarton & Co's Royal Illustrated Atlas in the 1860s. He often collaborated with another Scot, the cartographer John Bartholomew. George Heriot was the son of George Swanston who had married Margaret Heriot on 2 November 1807 at Canongate in Edinburgh.

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