Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dove, Nathaniel
DOVE, NATHANIEL (1710–1754), calligrapher, was educated under Philip Pickering, writing-master in Paternoster Row. He became master of an academy at Hoxton, and in 1740 published ‘The Progress of Time,’ containing verses upon the four seasons and the twelve months in sixteen quarto plates. He also contributed twenty pages (1738–40), in several hands, to the ‘Universal Penman … exemplified in all the useful and ornamental branches of modern penmanship,’ published by George Bickham [q. v.] in 1743. These performances probably recommended him to a lucrative clerkship in the victualling office, Tower Hill, where he died in 1754.
[Massey's Origin and Progress of Letters, ii. 76.]