The topic of this article may not meet Misplaced Pages's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "G. H. Swanston" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
George Heriot Swanston (7 May 1814 in Edinburgh – ?) was a Scottish map engraver, particularly noted for his engravings and vignettes illustrating Archibald Fullarton & Co's Royal Illustrated Atlas in the 1860s. He often collaborated with another Scot, the cartographer John Bartholomew. George Heriot was the son of George Swanston who had married Margaret Heriot on 2 November 1807 at Canongate in Edinburgh.
References
- Withers, Charles W. J. (3 July 2019). "On Trial—Social Relations of Map Production in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain". Imago Mundi. 71 (2): 173–195. doi:10.1080/03085694.2019.1607044. hdl:20.500.11820/9f73e764-e10a-43d4-a0ab-e17e167fb18c. ISSN 0308-5694. S2CID 195582902.
This article about an artist, architect or photographer from Scotland is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |