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Female Scientific Illustrators

In this website I have predominately chosen to feature women who were scientific illustrators. I have digitally altered their work to enhance the color and bring a contemporary feeling to it.

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These women were amazingly talented people who pursued their work out of passion and love for what they saw in the world around them. 

 

They are underrepresented in the field, even though they contributed important research and astounding beauty to botany, horticulture, ecology and art.

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I have included this page to bring them to light as people and have combed the internet to find out more about them. This is a compilation of that research.

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German-born Naturalist and Artist 

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Maria Sibylla Merian 

(1647-1717)

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Her Story

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Her Work

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English Natural History Artist

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Elizabeth Gould

(1804-1841)

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Her Story

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Her Work

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American Artist and Maverick 

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Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867-1944)

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Her Story

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Her Work

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American Artist and Naturalist 

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Ellen Robbins

(1828-1905)

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Her Story

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Her Work

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American Artist and Naturalist 

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Mary Vaux Walcott

(1860-1940)

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Her Story

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Her Work

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American Water Color Painter and Botanist 

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Helen Sharp 

(1865-1934)

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Her Story

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Her Work

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Henrietta Maria Moriarty (1803-1812)

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English Artist and Naturalist 

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Her Story

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Her Work

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Helena "Nellie" Scott

(1832-1910)

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Australian illustrator of natural history.

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Her Story

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Her Work

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Harriet Scott

(1830 - 1907)

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Australian illustrator of natural history.

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Her Story

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Her Work

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