Stella Ross-Craig
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Stella Ross-Craig was an English illustrator best known as a prolific illustrator of native flora.
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Chrysanthemum × rubellum by artists Lilian Snelling and Stella Ross-Craig, published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1939
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William Jackson Hooker
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William Jackson Hooker was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. A
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…she began work as a botanical illustrator and taxonomist at Kew Gardens and was a contributor to Curtis's Botanical Magazine and Icones Plantarum of William Jackson Hooker. Her work drew the attention of Sir Edward Sailsbury, the director of Kew, who brought her to a publisher. The first in Ross-Craig's series Drawings…
Gambardella Sir William Jackson Hooker
Hooker's illustrations for James Edward Smith's paper Characters of Hookeria (1808), about the genus named for Hooker by Smith
An etching owned by Sir Joseph Banks, which Hooker included in his Journal of a tour in Iceland (1813)
Hooker in 1834