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Last Name Fawcett

Given Name Martha °

alt. Names M. P. F. ; Martha Porter ;

Marriage wood engraver Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) in 1848

Children

Year born 1827 in Driffield, Yorkshire

Year died 1912

Place of death Driffield, Yorkshire

Father's occupation Mr. Porter

Relatives

Education

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for Francis Orpen Morris: History of British Birds (1850-7) ; W. Houghton: British Freshwater Fishes (1879) ; W. T. Greene: Parrots in Captivity ; David Wooster: Alpine Plants ;

Patronage

Collaborators engraver Benjamin Fawcett ; artist Alexander Francis Lydon ; colorist Augusta Woodmansey ;

Techniques ornithological, ichthyological, and botanical drawing and watercolour ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) http://scientificillustration.tumblr.com/post/19179928701/heracliteanfire-print-by-benjamin-fawcett ; http://www.oldprint.co.uk/search.php?q=e&search=

Archival sources http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=3075&-max=25 ;

Published sources AKL 37 2003: 306 ; C. E. Jackson: Hand-coloured zool. ill., in: Arch. Nat. Hist. 38, 1(2011): 43-4 ;

other Drew & completed proof pattern for the colorists.

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