Anne Pratt

Anne Pratt ( born December 5, 1806 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 area in the Victorian era.

Life and work

Anne Pratt was the second of three daughters of the merchant Robert Pratt (1777-1819) and Sara Bundock (1780-1845) in Strood ( Kent, England) was born. 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, it was introduced into the botany and supported by her older sister by collected plants. Anne Pratt was informed on Eastgate House in Rochester. 1826 she moved to Brixton, a district in the London Borough London Borough of Lambeth where she began her career as an illustrator. 1849 she moved to Dover in 1866 to East Grinstead, where she married in December of the same year, John Pearless. The couple moved to Redhill, later to Shepherd's Bush. Here Anne Pratt died on July 27, 1893 at the age of 86 years at her home in the Rylett Road.

Anne Pratt wrote more than 20 books, which she illustrated with Chromolithografien. She also worked with William Dickes (1815-1892), an engraver with training in chromolithography together. Her work, she wrote a technically correct in a popular science style and thus contributed to the popularization of botany. Since she was self-taught, her professional recognition, however, remained failed.

Writings (selection )

  • The field, the garden, and the woodland. In 1838.
  • The Pictorial Catechism of Botany. Suttaby and Co, London, 1842.
  • The ferns of Great Britain., 1850
  • Wildflowers. 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, pepper worts, and horsetails. 5 volumes. Frederick Warne and Co., London, 1855-1866, Volume 6, 1873, The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge
  • Chapters on the 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.
  • Wildflowers 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.

Bee Orchid from Wild Flowers

Aquilegia and Delphinium field of wildflowers

Dog - rose of Wildflowers

Sundew from The Flowering Plants of Great Britain

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