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Elizabeth Blackwell (born 23 April 1699 in Aberdeen [1] [2] [3] –1758) was a botanical illustrator best known as drawer and engraver of the plates for A Curious Herbal, published between 1737 and 1739. It illustrated medicinal plants in a reference work for the use of physicians and apothecaries.
Elizabeth Blackwell (1699 –1758), botanical illustrator and engraver, made medical reference work A Curious Herbal which was "among the earliest publications on botany by a woman" [1] Edith Blake (1846–1926), Irish botanical illustrator and writer; Marjorie Blamey (1918–2019), English painter and illustrator, founding member of the ...
The first admission of women as fellows of the Linnean Society in 1905, Mary Anne Stebbing is depicted in the right foreground, - from the original version of a painting by James Sant (1820–1916) Mary Anne Stebbing FLS ( née Saunders ; 11 September 1845 [ 1 ] – 21 January 1927) [ 2 ] was a botanist and botanical illustrator .
Isabel Adams (bapt. 13 October 1853 – 1937), known as H. Isabel Adams, was an English artist, scientific illustrator, and author.She is most known for her botanical drawings, bookplates, and published volume of books, Wild Flowers of the British Isles (1907).
The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
American Turk's cap lily, Lilium superbum, Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–70), About 1750–53, Watercolor and gouache on vellum V&A Museum no. D.589-1886 [1] Banksia coccinea from Ferdinand Bauer's 1813 work Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae. Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species. They ...
Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.