Thomas Milton

From the character of his plates it seems probable that Milton was a pupil of William Woollett, and he is said to have practised for some time in London, but nothing is known of the work of his early life.

In 1783 appeared the first number of his Views of Seats in Ireland, a series of twenty-four plates from drawings by William Ashford, John James Barralet, Francis Wheatley, and others; this work, which made Milton's reputation, was completed in 1793.

His other major plate was The Deluge, engraved for Thomas Macklin's Bible from a picture by Philip James de Loutherbourg.

In 1801 appeared Views in Egypt, a series of coloured aquatints; the subtitle clarifies that it was from original drawings in owned by Sir Robert Ainslie, taken during his embassy to Constantinople by Luigi Mayer, engraved by and under Milton.

For Rees's Cyclopædia he engraved well over 200 plates, mostly on natural history topics.