Anne Pratt (* 5. December 1806 in Strood (Kent); † 27. July 1893 in London) was a British botany and ornithology illustrator. She was one of the most famous English illustrators in this field in the Victorian era. Anne Pratt was born in Strood (County of Kent, England), the second of three daughters of the merchant Robert Pratt (1777–1819) and Sara Bundock (1780–1845). As a child she was sickly and suffered from a stiff knee. 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 educated 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 a