Women, Art, and Orchids, An Anthology of Illustrators of Tropical American Orchids (1700 - 2020). ca. 380 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

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Contents

CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
1 Synopsis
2 Prominent Women in Science: 1700-1950
Dorotea Bucca (1360-1436)
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (1711-1778)
Carolina Lucrecia Herschel (1750-1848)
Sofia Kovaleskaya (1850-1891)
Maria Salomea Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934)
3 Outstanding Women in the pictorial arts: 1550-1800
Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614)
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656)
Judith Jans Leyster (also Leijster) (1609-1660)
Josefa de Óbidos (1630-1684)
Maria Anna Angelika Katharina Kauffmann (1741-1807)
4 Feminist Botany? (with a note on the techniques of book
printing
Women of Orchids: 1700-2020
5 Flowers and caterpillars: Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
6 The King’s Paintresse: Madeleine Françoise Basseporte
(1701-1780)
7 A paper garden: Mary Granville Delany (1700-1788)
8 The lost manuscript: Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft
(1791-1828)
9 Life in the plantations: Louise von Panhuys (1763-1844)
10 A matter of gender: Miss (or Mr.?) Hart (fl. 1820-1840)
11 The Golden Age of Orchidomania: Augusta Hanna Ines
Withers (1792-1877)
10 John Lindley’s right hand: Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857)
11 An illustrious ‘unknown’: Jane Taylor (fl. 1830-1870)
12 From Rio de Janeiro to Liverpool: Elizabeth Harrison
(1792-1834)
12 Untiring traveler and artist: Marianne North (1839-1890)
14 The Lady from Rio de Janeiro: Edith Holland Norton
(1845-1931)
15 The marchioness of Masdevallias: Florence Woolward
(1854–1936)
16 Illustrator of ‘Royal’ plants: Harriet Stewart Miner (1841-1895)
17 In the wilderness of Guyana: Hannah Cassels im Thurn
(1854-1947)
18 Granddaughter, daughter, and wife of Kew Gardens: Harriet
Anne Thiselton-Dyer (1854-1945)
19 From Bombay to Kew: Alice Matilda Smith (1854-1926)
20 The orchids of Jamaica: Helen Adelaide Woods (1860-1927)
21 Addisonia’s favorite illustrator: Mary Emily Eaton (1873–1961)
22 Ames and Ames. A fortunate marriage: Blanche Ames
(1878–1969)
23 Eleonar B.Phillips
24 From Edinburgh to Kew: Lilian Snelling (1879–1971)
25 The Orchids of Peru: Dorothy H. Marsh (1965)
26 In love with the Amazon: Margaret Ursula Mee (19091988)
27 A botanical artist of the Smithsonian: Regina Olson Hughes
(1895-1993)
28 Painters of Orchid portraits: The Artists of the Royal Horticultural
Society (1912-Present)
Nelly Roberts (1872-1959)
Minnie Walters Anson (1875-959)
Jeanne Holgate (1920-2010)
Cherry Anne Lavryh (1946-2012)
Mary Iris Humphreys (1928–1980)
29 An inseparable couple: Dorothy G. Allen (1911-1973) and Paul
H. Allen (1911-1963)
30 In the land of the Mayas: Carmen Lind Pettersen (1900-1991)
31 Exceptional achievers in Orchid Education: Marion Ruff
Sheehan (19241988) and Thomas J. Sheehan (1924-2016)
32 A tribute to Costa Rica: Cristina Fournier (1937-2016),
Sylvia Strigari (1947–) and Pilar Casasa (1951-)
33 Epilogue
Literature
Credits of illustrations

It is interesting how, in the era of total digital reproducibility
of natural reality, botanical illustration
created with pen and ink and watercolor and
tempera is far from having exhausted its function in
science and is instead experiencing an era of fruitful
renaissance all over the world. Of course, one might
ask whether there is a special reason for choosing to
observe the history of scientific illustration through
the magnifying glass of the female gender, as Ossenbach
has done in this book. My response, upon
reading the extraordinary accounts presented by the
author, is that this reason not only exists, but it is
also certainly valid. (Preface by Franco Pupulin, partim)