Horace Knight
Illustration — Acanthogyna deplanata • Illustration — Pilema cribrosa Horace Knight (fl. 1884–1920) was a natural history illustrator with the British Museum, noted particularly for his images in The Moths of the British Isles by Richard South.
Also recorded as Horace Henry Knight
Horace Knight
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- Died
- 1920.
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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- illustrator.
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Illustration — Acanthogyna deplanata • Illustration — Pilema cribrosa Horace Knight (fl. 1884–1920) was a natural history illustrator with the British Museum, noted particularly for his images in The Moths of the British Isles by Richard South.
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Knight, who lived at 16 Dafforne Road, Upper Tooting, had a son, Edgar S. Knight, who also illustrated. Horace Knight retired from the British Museum in 1917 due to illness, at which point he had been producing drawings for William Lucas Distant for over 30 years, working for the chromo-lithographers and letter-press printers, West, Newman & Co. of Hatton Garden. Horace and his brother E. C. Knight worked together at West, Newman & Co. His work appeared in • Henry C. Lang: Rhopalocera Europae descripta et delineata / The butterflies of Europe described and figured., London, L. Reeve 1884 • John Henry Leech/Richard South: Butterflies from China, Japan and Corea, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1901 • Charles Thomas Bingham: The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Butterflies 1905-7 • William Lucas Distant: Insecta Transvaaliensia 1924 • William John Stokoe ed.: The Observer's Book of British Butterflies 1969 • Seitz, Adalbert.: "Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde". 1906-1940. Alfred Kernen Verlag His collaborators were entomologist Carl Plötz, artist Alice Ellen Prout and entomologist Humphrey Drummond Swain.
Plate LXXXVI Vol 5 Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum London:Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1898-1920 (https: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9918240) Fig 1. Discestra florida now known as Anarta florida Fig 2. Craterestra semifusca now known as Omphalestra semifusca Fig 17. Hyssia sminthistis now known as Physetica homoscia
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Plate II of Vol XIX of the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Ruwenzori Expedition reports. Fig 1 Caura leggei Fig 2 Ptyelus niveus Dist., p. 81. Fig 3 Aspongopus alternatus Dist., p. 74. Fig 4 Carbula bicolor Dist., p. 70. Fig 5 Lepyronia ethiops Dist., p. 82. Fig 6 Awemba typica Dist., p. 72. Fig 7 Acanthomia insignis Dist., p. 77. Fig 8 Carbula fuscata Dist., p. 71. Fig 9 Ranatra
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- 1.Lewington, Richard. Artwork Versus Photography: Set Specimen Versus Natural Posture. Atropos. 43. 3–11. Summer 2011.
- 2.http://primo-44nhm.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do;jsessionid=51BEF37C1A50044AD8B50E34372F5FE9?tabs=requestTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=44NHM_CALMTR%2f1%2f1%2f29%2f364&indx=5&recIds=44NHM_CALMTR%2f1%2f1%2f29%2f364&recIdxs=4&elementId=4&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=0&tab=default_tab&dstmp=1440235432168&vl(freeText0)=Horace%20Knight&vid=44NHM_V1&mode=Basic
- 3.Uni-stuttgart.de. DSI - Database of Scientific Illustrators.
- 4.Ormerod, Eleanor. Economic Entomologist: Autobiography and Correspondence. E. P. Dutton. 63. 1904.
- 5.Uni-stuttgart.de. DSI - Database of Scientific Illustrators.
- 6.University Press Oxford. Supplement to the Catalogue of the Books, Maps, &c., in the British Museum (Natural History). 8 Supplement (P-Z). 1016. 1940.
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