(1812–1879) was a British born American artist working in watercolor, gouache, lithography, and engraving.
Hill's work focussed primarily upon natural subjects including landscapes, still lifes, and ornithological and zoological subjects. In the 1850s, influenced by John Ruskin and Hill's association with American followers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, his attention turned from technical illustration toward still life and landscape.
Hill was the son of British aquatint engraver John Hill. He emigrated with his parents from London to the United States in 1819, initially living in Philadelphia. In 1822 the family moved to New York, where Hill apprenticed in aquatint engraving in his father's shop.
In 1838 Hill married Catherine Smith - their children included the astronomer George William Hill and the painter John Henry Hill.
In watercolor and aquatint engravings, Hill employed a stipple technique, building up planes of softly gradated colors made of tiny brushstrokes–a process commonly seen in painted miniatures. Applied to a larger scale on canvas the result was a form of objective real...
Nämnda som portugisiska kartografer (1519). Utförde karta över Brasilien till Miller's atlas, karta över Atlanten samt flera länder.
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Fransk kartograf. Han betecknade sig som 'successeur des sierus De l'Isle & Buache'. Under åren 1769-90 ansvarade han för flera nya reviderade utgåvor av deras atlas. Ett antal av hans kartor togs även med i andra kartografers atlaser.
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Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
'Telegraf Karta Öfver Sverige' - 1867.
