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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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).
She was the director of the Travis chapter of the Air Force Association, member of Ronald Reagan's Task Force, the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, and head of the board of directors of the Davis Republican Women's Club. [3] [8] Her late work predominantly features botanical illustration of California's wildflowers made in watercolor and ...
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʒozɛf ʁədute], 10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from the Austrian Netherlands, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison, many of which were published as large coloured stipple engravings. [1]
Naturalist, women's rights activist 1846-07-02 1912-04-20 United Kingdom: Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz: Dutch physopathologist 1898-07-12 1969-07-27 Kingdom of the Netherlands: Marie Jean-Eudes Tellier: Religious Sister and botanist 1897 1978 Canada: Marie Prins: South African botanist 1948 South Africa: Marie Stopes: British paleontologist ...