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Deborah Griscom Passmore (1840–1911) was a botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture who specialized in paintings of fruit. Her work is now preserved in the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection, and she has been called the best of the early USDA artists. [1]
Botanical illustration accompanied the development of agronomy (a term that appeared in the late 18th century) and the seed trade. Johann Simon von Kerner, Illustration of All Economic Plants (Abbildung aller oekonomischen Pflanzen, Stuttgart 1786–96) is a notable example from this period.
Alice R. Tangerini (born April 25, 1949) is an American botanical illustrator.In 1972, Tangerini was hired as a staff illustrator for the Department of Botany at the National Museum of Natural History by American botanist Lyman Bradford Smith.
Lambkin was awarded the 2020 Margaret Flockton Award (awarded annually by the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney) "for excellence in scientific botanical illustration") [10] [11] for her illustration of the new orchid species Gastrodia agnicellus which was named partly in her honour: "the species refers to the woolly covering on the rhizome, the ear ...
While his output covered a wide range of topics, he is best known for his contributions to botanical history, taxonomy, botanical bibliography, and botanical illustration. Botanical Latin (four editions 1966–1992), [102] is his best known work, [15] [21] having become a standard reference and described as both the bible of plant taxonomists ...
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In 1929, she began work as a botanical illustrator and taxonomist at Kew Gardens [5] and was a contributor to Curtis's Botanical Magazine and Icones Plantarum of William Jackson Hooker. [7] Her work drew the attention of Sir Edward Sailsbury, the director of Kew, who brought her to a publisher. [8]
Their illustrations are considered the best in Flora Danica, and set a benchmark in botanical illustration. Later illustrators were Johann Christian Thornam (1822–1908), Christian F. Mueller (1748–1814), the brother of the botanist editor Otto Friedrich Müller , for volumes 12 to 21, and Johann Theodor Bayer (1782–1873), for volumes 22 ...