Margaret Roscoe

Margaret Roscoe ( Lace c. 1786 – 1840) was an early 19th-century English botanical illustrator and writer. She was a mother to Margaret Sandbach and wife to Edward Roscoe.

Work Roscoe illustrated plates in William Roscoe's botanical work Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae: Chiefly Drawn from Living Specimens in the Botanical Gardens at Liverpool. Her sister Mrs James Dixon also illustrated this botanical work. She went on to write and illustrate Floral Illustrations of the Seasons. A plate from this work was displayed in the 2012 exhibition "Portraits of a Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium" held at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.

Roscoe's work Floral Illustrations of the Seasons was engraved by master aquatintist Robert Havell. This book has 55 pages filled with illustrations both hand colored and printed.

Family

Roscoe was the daughter of Margaret Griffies and her husband, John Lace, an attorney from Liverpool. Roscoe married her second-cousin Edward Roscoe, the son of William Roscoe in 1810. Margaret Sandbach lived from 1812 to 1852.

Hope: Monument to Edward and Margaret Roscoe John Gibson, an 18th-century artist, dedicated a plaster relief sculpture, which he named "Hope" in honor of Edward and Margaret.

Gallery 1

Gallery 2 Juxtaposition of images of faded original plates with photographs of the plant species depicted in them and images of plates subsequently re-balanced to correspond to natural colouration of plant species involved.