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Beautiful chromolithograph by the most famous English botany and ornithology illustrator Anne Pratt.
Sheet size: approx. 14.5 x 24 cm - unprinted on the back.
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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 and 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. Anne Pratt died here on the 27th. July 1893, aged 86, at 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 works in a technically correct manner in a popular scientific style and thus contributed to the popularization of botany. However, because she was self-taught, she was denied professional recognition.
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