About Emily Stackhouse
Lived 1811 – 1870 (aged 59). Emily Stackhouse was a botanist, botanical illustrator and explorer.
Emily Stackhouse (15 July 1811 – 1 April 1870) was a 19th-century British botanical artist and plant collector. She collected and painted flowers and mosses throughout the British isles, and her work was widely reproduced in a series of popular books issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Many of her watercolours show that she had collected and depicted specific plants years earlier than their accredited discovery in Cornwall, and it is now acknowledged that she collected and classified nearly all of the British mosses.
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Who was Emily Stackhouse?
botanical artist 1811–1870
When was Emily Stackhouse born?
Emily Stackhouse was born on 17 January 1811.
When did Emily Stackhouse die?
Emily Stackhouse died on 17 January 1870.
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Emily Stackhouse was a botanist, botanical illustrator and explorer.
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