Charlotte Georgina Trower - Artist

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Charlotte Georgina Trower (born 1855, Ware, Hertfordshire, d. 8 November 1928, Ware, Hertfordshire) was the daughter of Edward Spencer Trower and his wife Emma nee Gosselin , she was a British botanical illustrator and botanist noted for her watercolor paintings of mostly British plants and flowers.[1] She collaborated with her sister Alice and amateur botanist George Claridge Druce to create over 1,800 scientifically accurate paintings.[2] Her illustrations were used as major contributions in two books, Skene's Flower Book for the Pocket and British Brambles.[3]

Works

"Trower Botanical Illustrations Collection". herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk. Oxford University Herbaria. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
Skene, Macgregor; Trower, Charlotte Georgiana; Weston, Ruth (1937). A flower book for the pocket. Oxford University Press : Humphrey Milford. OCLC 939667712.
Watson, W; Trower, Charlotte Georgiana; Druce, G. Claridge (1929). British brambles. T. Buncle & Co. OCLC 21308172.

References

Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. p. 1305. ISBN 9781135963439.
Harris, S. A. (2 March 2009). "The Trower collection: Botanical watercolours of an Edwardian lady". Journal of the History of Collections. 22 (1): 115–128. doi:10.1093/jhc/fhn019.
Way, Twigs (2005). Virgins, Weeders and Queens: A History of Women in the Garden. The History Press. ISBN 9780752495781.

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