#botanical illustrator
“An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.”
Love Botanical Illutrations , flowers are like whole ecosytems , Mother Nature is the ultimate designer !
Henry George Moon an English landscape and botanical painter, loved nature and is noted for his orchid paintings. His Illustrations were featured in “Reichenbachia”, a monthly publication named in honour of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach of Hamburg, the great orchidologist.
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Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft, sister-in-law of Mary Wollstoncraft and aunt of author Mary Shelly, was a US botanist, naturalist, botanical illustrator & women’s rights advocate. Her manuscript with artworks on plant specimens (1828) was rediscovered recently ♀️
