Women of Scientific Illustration
Listed Chronologically
Galizia, Fede (1578-1630) botany
Peeters, Clara (1594 - c. 1658) botany
Garzoni, Giovanna (1600-1670) botany
Leyster, Judith (1609 - 1660) botany
Moillon, Louise (1610 - 1696) botany
Variana, Anna Maria (fl. c. 1630) botany
van Oosterwyck, Maria (1630 - 1693) botany
Merian, Maria Sibylla (1647 - 1717) botany entomology
Ruysch, Rachel (1664 - 1750) botany
de Rijck, Cornelia (1656 - c. 1710) ornithology
Haverman, Margareta (1693 - c. 1751) botany
Blackwell, Elizabeth (1700 - 1758)
Basseport, Madeline (1701 - 1780) botany
Dietsch, Barbara Regina (1706 - 1783) botany
Vallayer-Coster, Anne (1744-1818) botany
Bouchard, Magdalena (fl. 1779) botany
Stone, Sarah (1761 - 1844) ornithology
Pope, Clara (1768 - 1838) botany
Peale, Mary Jane (1787 - 1866) botany
Withers, Augusta Innes (1792 - 1869) botany
Peale, Margaretta (1795-1882) botany
Lawrence, Mary (1796 - 1810) botany
Bury, Priscilla Susan (c. 1800) botany
Dufour, Augustine (c.1800) botany
Drake, Miss S. A. (c.1800) botany
Maund, the Misses (c.1800) botany
Fitzgibbon, Agnes Dunbar (1802 - 1899) botany
Moriarty, Henrietta Maria (fl. 1803-1812) botany
Gould, Elizabeth Coxen (1804 - 1841) ornithology
Twining, Elizabeth (1805 - 1889) botany
Pratt, Anne (1806 - 1893) botany
Badger, Clarissa W. Munger (1806 - 1889) botany
Loudon, Jane Webb (1807 - 1858) botany
Panckoucke, Anne Ernestine (fl. 1814) botany
Bowdich, Sarah (1791 - 1856) ichthyology
Bonheur, Rosa (1822 - 1899) zoology
Robbins, Ellen (1828 - 1905) botany
North, Marianne (1830 - 1890) botany
Furbish, Kate (1834 - 1931) botany
Passmore, Deborah Griscom (1840 - 1911) botany
van Nooten, Berthe Hoola (1840 - 1885) botany
Thayer, Emma Homan (1842 - 1908) botany
Comstock, Anna Botsford (1854-1930) entomology
Walcott, Mary Vaux (1860 - 1940) botany
Van de Mark, Julia A. (fl. 1860) botany
Chase, Mary Agnes (1869 - 1963) botany
Eaton, Mary Emily (1873 - 1961) botany
Snelling, Lilian (1879-1972) botany
Medland, Lilian Marguerite (1880 - 1955) ornithology
Botke, Jessie Arms (1883-1971) ornithology
Peart, Mary (fl. 1884) entomology
Sinclair, Isabella (fl. 1885) botany
Rivers, May (fl. 1894) botany
Hughes, Regina (1895 - 1993) botany
Watts, Betty Temple (1901 - 1992) ornithology
Mee, Margaret Ursula Brown (1909 - 1988) botany
Wood, Helen Adelaide (fl. ca. 1910) botany
Solt, Marie L. (1925 - 1978) botany
Also See:
Women of Flowers: A Tribute to Victorian Women Illustrators
by Jack Kramer, Eric Strachan (Photographer), Linda Sunshine
(Editor)
Review from Ingram:
"Since the early 1970s, horticultural expert Jack Kramer has been collecting works by Victorian women artists. Women of Flowers is his tribute to those women who received so little credit in their own day and age. Over 150 floral paintings and prints illustrate the life stories of 35 women artists from America, England, Germany and France.150 full-color illustrations."