Margaret Roscoe
Margaret Roscoe | |
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Born | 1786 |
Died | 1840 |
Occupation | Scientific Illustrator and author |
Spouse(s) | Edward Roscoe |
Parent(s) | John Lace and Margaret Griffies |
Margaret Roscoe (née Lace ca. 1786-1840) was an early 19th-century English botanical illustrator and author.
Work
Roscoe illustrated plates in William Roscoe's botanical work Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae: Chiefly Drawn from Living Specimens in the Botanical Gardens at Liverpool.[1] She went on to write and illustrate Floral Illustrations of the Seasons.[2] A plate from this work was displayed in the 2012 exhibition "Portraits of a Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium" held at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.[3]
Roscoe died in 1840. A memorial sculpture commemorating Roscoe and her husband was undertaken by sculptor John Gibson. This monument can be seen at the Ullet Road Unitarian Church in Liverpool.[4]
The standard author abbreviation M.Roscoe is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
Family
Roscoe was the daughter of Margaret Griffies and her husband, John Lace, an attorney from Liverpool.[6] Roscoe married her cousin Edward Roscoe, the son of William Roscoe in 1810.[1][6] She had three children who were the poet and novelist Margaret Sandbach,[1] William Roscoe and Edward Henry Roscoe.[7]
References
- 1 2 3 "Margaret Roscoe". www.rossbayvilla.org. Ross Bay Villa Historic House Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ Roscoe, Margaret (1831). Floral illustrations of the seasons, consisting of the most beautiful, hardy and rare herbaceous plants cultivated in the flower garden, from drawings. London: Robert Havell. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Portraits of a Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium". www.huntbotanical.org. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Gibson, John". A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851. Henry Moore Foundation. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ IPNI. M.Roscoe.
- 1 2 Dickinson, R. (1957). "James Nasmyth and the Liverpool iron trade." (PDF). Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 108: 83–104. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Margaret Roscoe". www.geni.com. GENi. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
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