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D.r Berkenhout.

D.r Berkenhout.European Magazine.

T Holloway delint et sculpt [scratched]
Published Oct.r. 1. 1788 bu I. Sewell Cornhill.
Engraving 7 x 4¾" (175 x 120mm), with margins. Some surface dirt in margins.
Bust portrait of Dr Thomas Berkenhout in an oval. An English spy, physician, naturalist and author who wrote several works including 'Clavis Anglicae Linguae Botanicae', 'Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland' (1769) and 'Synopsis of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland' (1789). He also served as a British agent in the colonies during the American Revolution being sent covertly on the Carlisle Peace Commission.
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