Charlotte Georgina Trower (born 1855, Ware, Hertfordshire, d. 8 November 1928, Ware, Hertfordshire) was the daughter of Edward Spencer Trower and his wife Emma nee Gosselin , she was a British botanical illustrator and botanist noted for her watercolor paintings of mostly British plants and flowers. She collaborated with her sister Alice and amateur botanist George Claridge Druce to create over 1,800 scientifically accurate paintings. Her illustrations were used as major contributions in two books, Skene's Flower Book for the Pocket and British Brambles.
Works
- "Trower Botanical Illustrations Collection". herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk. Oxford University Herbaria. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- Skene, Macgregor; Trower, Charlotte Georgiana; Weston, Ruth (1937). A flower book for the pocket. Oxford University Press : Humphrey Milford. OCLC 939667712.
- Watson, W; Trower, Charlotte Georgiana; Druce, G. Claridge (1929). British brambles. T. Buncle & Co. OCLC 21308172.
References
- Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. p. 1305. ISBN 9781135963439.
- Harris, S. A. (2 March 2009). "The Trower collection: Botanical watercolours of an Edwardian lady". Journal of the History of Collections. 22 (1): 115–128. doi:10.1093/jhc/fhn019.
- Way, Twigs (2005). Virgins, Weeders and Queens: A History of Women in the Garden. The History Press. ISBN 9780752495781.
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