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Last Name Sharpe

Given Name Emily Mary Bowdler °

alt. Names E. M. B. S. ;

Marriage unmarried

Children

Year born 1869 Camden Town, London

Year died 1928 after

Place of death London ?

Father's occupation bird illustrator ->Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909) ; Emily Eliza Burrows (18xx-1928) (mother)

Relatives 9 sisters: Ada L., Eva A., L. Bertha, Lena Violet, Daisy M., Sylvia R., Hilda Marion, Aimee Marjorie

Education botanical illustration from father & ->John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1878 / 1912)

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for Richard Bowdler Sharpe & Claude Wyatt: Monograph Hirundinidae Swallows (1885-94) ; Wyatt: British Birds (1894-9) ; Emily M. B. Sharpe: Monograph genus Teracolus (Lepidoptera) (1898-1902) ; Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917) ; H. W. Johnston ; Charles Chubb ; Fred Du Cane Godman: Petrels (1907-10) ;

Patronage British Natural History Museum ; worked for Dep. of Entomology of Museum Natural History London 1905-25 ;

Collaborators artist ->Keulemans ; Henrik Grönvold ; colorist sisters: Ada, Eva, Bertha, Dora, Daisy ; colorist Sylvia Sharpe ;

Techniques zoological, ornithological, and entomological watercolour ; hand-colouring ;

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Archival sources

Published sources C. E. Jackson: Sharpes 10 daughters, in: Arch. Nat. Hist. 21 (1994): 261-9 & Dict. Bird Artists 1999: 434 ;

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