Alexander Anderson (illustrator)

[2] "At the age of twelve years he made his first attempts at engraving on copper, frequently using pennies rolled out, and on type-metal plates.

Anderson was a contemporary of Thomas Bewick, and published his first work in Arnaud Bernaud's "The Looking Glass of the Mind" in 1794.

He became the first doctor at what would become Bellevue Hospital, established to deal with an outbreak of yellow fever in New York City in 1795.

[5] Another outbreak of yellow fever began in 1798, and Anderson returned to Bellevue as the resident physician.

The Fever That Struck New York: The front lines of a terrible epidemic, through the eyes of a young doctor profoundly touched by tragedy, by Carolyn Eastman.