Anne Pratt

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Anne Pratt in the 1830s
Anne Pratt in old age

Anne Pratt (born December 5, 1806 in Strood ( Kent ), † July 27, 1893 in London ) was a British illustrator of botany and ornithology . She was one of the most famous English illustrators in the field in the Victorian era .

Live and act

Anne Pratt was as the second of three daughters of the businessman Robert Pratt (1777-1819) and Sara Bundock (1780-1845) in Strood ( county Kent , England ) was born. As a child she was sickly and suffered from a stiff knee joint . While her sisters played, Anne sat and drew. Through a family friend, Dr. Dods, she was introduced to botany and supported by her older sister by collecting plants. Anne Pratt was taught at Eastgate House in Rochester . In 1826 she moved to Brixton, a district in the London Borough of Lambeth, where she began her career as an illustrator. In 1849 she moved to Dover , in 1866 to East Grinstead , where she married John Pearless in December of the same year. The couple moved to Redhill , and later to Shepherd's Bush . Here Anne Pratt died on July 27, 1893 at the age of 86 in her home on Rylett Road.

Anne Pratt wrote more than 20 books, which she illustrated with chromolithographs . She also worked with William Dickes (1815-1892), an engraver trained in chromolithography. She wrote her work professionally correct in a popular scientific style and thus contributed to the popularization of botany. Since she was self-taught , however, she was denied professional recognition.

Fonts (selection)

  • The field, the garden, and the woodland. 1838.
  • The Pictorial Catechism of Botany. Suttaby and Co, London, 1842.
  • The ferns of Great Britain. , 1850
  • Wild flowers. 1852 (2 volumes)
  • Poisonous, Noxious, and Suspected Plants, of our Fields and Woods. 1857
  • The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails. 5 volumes. Frederick Warne and Co., London 1855-1866, Volume 6, 1873, The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge
  • The Language of Flowers the Associations of Flowers Popular Tales of Flowers. (with Thomas Miller), Simpkin & Co Limited, London 1846.
  • Chapters on Common Things of the Sea-side. The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 1850.
  • Our Native Songsters. The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 1857.
  • Haunts of the Wild Flowers. Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1863.
  • The Garden Flowers of The Year. Religious Tract Society, 1846.
  • Wild Flowers of The Year. Religious Tract Society, 1846.
  • The Excellent Woman as Described in Proverbs 31. Religious Tract Society, 1863.
  • By daylight; or, pictures from real life . A translation from the German of Ottilie Wildermuth . With Illustrations, London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge 1865.

literature

  • Pnina G. Abir-Am, Dorinda Outram: Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979. Rutgers University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-8135-1256-5 , p. 36

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The University of Delaware: The Art of Botanical Illustration. Women Illustrators.
  2. ↑ Available online ( memento of the original from January 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Biodiversity Heritage Library @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 192.104.39.88
personal data
SURNAME Pratt, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British illustrator of botany and ornithology
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Strood ( Kent )
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1893
Place of death London