Marianne North traveled to 6 continents & 17 countries, painting exotic plants in remote & hazardous jungles… all while traveling alone in Victorian dress in the 1800s.
North depicted over 1,000 scientifically accurate pitcher plants, orchids, ferns & more. Her oil paintings introduced botanists to multiple previously unidentified species & several are named after her.
Her art has its own gallery at Kew Royal Botanical Gardens. artsandculture.google.com/stor… #HistoryRemix #history #art #science
Marianne North: an unsung pioneer of botanical art
More than 800 remarkable paintings cover the walls of the Marianne North Gallery. But who was she and why did her art matter?Google Arts & Culture
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A couple of years ago, Tianyi Yu recognized 14 new-to-science species of bright-blue fruited rainforest shrubs.
One specimen was first collected in 1973, but it turns out, North painted it ~100 years earlier in 1876.
Here’s her painting beside “Chassalia northiana T.Y. Yu” - which became the 5th plant species named in Marianne North’s honor. kew.org/read-and-watch/mariann… #art #history #nature #science #HistoryRemix /2
Painted by Marianne North in 1876, named in 2021
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"Epochs ahead of the modern environmental movement, a century before Rachel Carson cautioned that 'the real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife,' Marianne North sorrowed to see the quarrying & chemicalizing of #nature." /3
Turning Loss and Loneliness into Wonder: How the Victorian Visionary Marianne North Revolutionized Art and Science with Her Botanical Paintings
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •AND she did all that while suffering from quite severe mental health issues.
She couldn't paint animals for toffee, but her flowers are exquisite and that gallery is mind blowing 😀
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