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Artist Margaret Meen's botanicals graced the walls of royal palaces & scientific academies. While largely unknown today, her legacy is an important part of British botanical history. @oak_spring explore her life & work: https://t.co/vgueu0msWT #HerNaturalHistory #5womenartists
Mary Anne Stebbing illustrated many scientific publications on subjects ranging from botany to crustaceans. Sadly, her work was uncredited. Today, @Kew_LAA is digitizing some of her #SciArt for a project on female artists ➡️ https://t.co/g6SaEmpbjz #HerNaturalHistory
Mary Anne Stebbing. Sarah Anne Drake. What do these women have in common? They are both botanical artists and two of those whose #SciArt is being digitized by @Kew_LAA in collaboration with @oak_spring. @hug_the_trees tells us more ➡️ https://t.co/g6SaEmpbjz #HerNaturalHistory
Black-headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus) is native to Australia & is not venomous. #SciArt by Harriet Scott Morgan for Snakes of Australia (1869) by Gerard Krefft. In #BHLib via @mayrlibrary of @MCZHarvard: https://t.co/3JefUQG80b #HERpers #HerNaturalHistory #5womenartists
Tulip (Tulipa agenensis) #SciArt by Sarah Anne Drake for Edwards's botanical register v. 25 (1839), which was edited by botanist John Lindley. Drake illustrated many of Lindley's publications. In #BHLib via @mobotgarden: https://t.co/okdpJMd1Q3 #5womenartists #HerNaturalHistory
English artist Winifred Austen was a member of the Society of Women Artists, London. She provided #SciArt for The Wild Beasts of the World (1909), such this Philippine Flying Lemur (Cynocephalus volans) ➡️ https://t.co/wwERTEu8nr #5womenartists #HerNaturalHistory #MammalMonday
"The Cactaceae" (1919-1923) was produced as the 1st complete investigation on the Cactaceae family. It features stunning #SciArt by @NYBG artist Mary Emily Eaton, whose artworks were reproduced via chromolithography ➡️ https://t.co/MXGAp4WGKr #HerNaturalHistory #5womenartists
Hawaiian flowers for #BotanicMonday! 🌺 Isabella McHutcheson Sinclair's "Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands" (1885) is the most important record of Hawaiian flora in the 19th century. Read more about it via @chicagobotanic ➡️ https://t.co/HiGqIdkMuG #HerNaturalHistory
"Australian Lepidoptera and Their Transformations" (1890-98) depicts the life cycles of Australian moths & butterflies. It features #SciArt based on paintings by Harriet & Helena Scott. Explore it in #BHLib via @austmus @bhl_au ➡️ https://t.co/UMiqZKoWNS #HerNaturalHistory 🦋
"The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala" ([1837]-1843) is the largest botanical book ever produced with lithographic plates. It was beautifully illustrated chiefly by Sarah Anne Drake & Augusta Withers. In #BHLib via @mobotgarden ➡️ https://t.co/nP8O90Nqmf #HerNaturalHistory