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Last Name Bowdich Lee

Given Name Sarah °

alt. Names S. B. ; Sarah Wallis / Sarah Bowdich / Sarah Lee / Mrs. Robert Lee ;

Marriage 1: naturalist Thomas Edward Bowdich (1xxx-1824) in 1813 ; 2: Robert Lee (1xxx-1xxx) in 1826

Children 3: Eugenia

Year born 1791 in Colchester, Essex

Year died 1856

Place of death Erith

Father's occupation John Eglinton Wallis (17xx-1xxx)

Relatives

Education

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for Sarah Bowdich (1791-1856): Freshwater Fishes of Great Britain (1828) ; Excursions Madeira and Porto Santo (1826) ; Elements Natural History (1844) ;

Patronage Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier ; William Elford Leach ;

Collaborators artist J. S. Prout ; artist Harrison Weir ; artist James Andrews ;

Techniques botanical, zoological, and ichthyological drawing, lithography, and watercolour ;

Sample(s) www.victoriamunroefineart.com/exhibitions/sarah_bowdich/viewer_1.htm ; ....viewer_4.htm ;

Archival sources www.artfact.com/artist/bowdich-sarah-enjwlavcuc ;

Published sources AKL13 1996: 432 ; DNB ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration1969/78 ; Lightman: Victorian Popularizers 2009: 102 ; C. E. Jackson: Fish in Art (London 2012: 216f.) ;

other 1819 T. E. Bowdich studied under Cuvier and Humboldt in Paris: Portugal, London. Her husband Bowdich traveled in West Africa (Gambia).

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