M. & N. Hanhart
Illustration — Uromys rufescens by M. & N. Hanhart • Illustration — Lithograph by Nicholas, for a waltz arrangement of music from the opera Doris • Illustration — Graves of the Hanhart family in Highgate Cemetery (west side) M. & N. Hanhart was a London lithographic publishing house founded by Michael Hanhart (21 May 1788 – 16 December 1865) and Nicholas Hanhart (1815–1902).
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M. & N. Hanhart
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- Founded
- 1839
- Headquarters
- London
- Dissolved
- 1888
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Illustration — Uromys rufescens by M. & N. Hanhart • Illustration — Lithograph by Nicholas, for a waltz arrangement of music from the opera Doris • Illustration — Graves of the Hanhart family in Highgate Cemetery (west side) M. & N. Hanhart was a London lithographic publishing house founded by Michael Hanhart (21 May 1788 – 16 December 1865) and Nicholas Hanhart (1815–1902).
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The firm's heyday is considered to have been between 1839 and 1882. They published a wide range of material including book illustrations and lithographic sheet music covers. Their best work was in the field of large chromolithographs. Hanhart used a complex layering of tint stones, to produce work unique in colouration and tonal values.
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The family were of French descent, Michael, his wife Catharina (née Zetter) and Nicholas having been born in Muhlhausen, Alsace, Upper Rhine. They, along with several other members of the Hanhart family, are buried together in Highgate Cemetery.
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A Japanese physician reading a book. Lithograph by Hanhart after C. Wirgman. Iconographic Collections
https: Gallery: https: Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-22)
'J.F.Wm. Herschel' This image, of John FW Herschel as an eminent grey haired Victorian (he would have been in his 70s), was originally produced as the frontispiece to John FW Herschel's Catalogue of nebulae and clusters of stars (1864), an updated version of his father's work, with plates by M. N. Hanhart. The image was subsequently used (in 1882) by the journal, the Quarterly Journal of Science N
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- 1.Art of the Print - Featured Publishers History - H to P.
- 2.Jackson, Christine E. M. & N. Hanhart: printers of natural history plates, 1830–1903. Archives of Natural History. 26. 2. 287–292. 1999. 10.3366/anh.1999.26.2.287.
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
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