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Sol Eytinge Jr.
Solomon Eytinge Jr. (23 October 1833 – 26 March 1905), was an American illustrator of newspapers, journals and books by authors that included Charles Dickens and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Early life His father, Solomon Eytinge, was a Dutch merchant who settled in New York and married an American woman, Mary Ann Miller. Sol Eytinge was born in New York on the 23 October 1833. The census returns of 1860, 1880 & 1890 indicate Eytinge's place of birth was New York but several references put his place of birth as Philadelphia. Eytinge's mother came from Philadelphia and his father settled in Philadelphia when he first arrived in America. Career By the age of twenty three he was an established staff artist at Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Frank Leslie's ''Illustrated Newspaper'' where he mentored a sixteen-year-old Thomas Nast. Shortly afterwards, he worked for the New York ''Illustrated News'' later contributing to the journals ''Every Saturday'' and ''Harper's Weekly''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora And Mr
Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms ''gut flora'' or ''skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora (mythology), Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). Prior to this, the two terms were used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
