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Elizabeth Gould, (née Coxen; 18 July 1804 – 15 August 1841), was a British artist and illustrator at the forefront of the natural history movement.Elizabeth traveled and worked alongside her husband, naturalist and author John Gould.
Helen Adelaide Wood (August 17, 1860 – November 25, 1927) [1] was a British botanical artist and scientific illustrator best known for the collection of her illustrations held at the Natural History Museum of Jamaica.
This is a list of notable women botanical illustrators and artists. A. Elfriede Abbe (1919–2012), American sculptor ...
Elizabeth Twining was a notable philanthropist. She established and managed a temperance hall in Portugal Street in Holborn, London; renovated the parish almshouses near her home at Twickenham (a fact commemorated by a plaque on St Mary's Church, Twickenham); and, after a long association with King's College Hospital, established the St John's Hospital for the treatment of the poor. [5]
Augusta Hanna Elizabeth Innes Withers (née Baker; 1792, Gloucestershire – 1877, London), was an English natural history illustrator, known for her illustrating of John Lindley's Pomological Magazine and her collaboration with Sarah Drake on the monumental Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala by James Bateman.
Anne Rudge. Anne Rudge (29 October 1761 – 1 September 1836) was a British botanical illustrator who illustrated the works of her husband, the botanist Edward Rudge and her son, the barrister and antiquary Edward John Rudge, among others. [1]
Another women who influenced and inspired Lewis was her friend Mary Townsend, the sister of John Kirk Townsend. [4] Mary had written a book on insects and Lewis expressed a wish to emulate her. [4] During the 1850s Lewis moved to Philadelphia, where she worked closely with a small circle of Quakers who were active in the natural sciences. [2]
Scientific illustration of flora and insects, particularly for John James Audubon's Birds of America Maria (/mɝˈaɪə/ mah-RYE-uh) [ 1 ] Martin Bachman (3 July 1796 – 27 December 1863) [ 2 ] of Charleston, South Carolina , was an American watercolor painter and scientific illustrator .