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Berthe Hoola van Nooten (12 October 1817 Utrecht - 12 April 1892 Batavia), was a Dutch botanical artist, noted for her botanical plates illustrating "Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java" in 1863-64.

Berthe was the daughter of a vicar and married Dirk Hoola van Nooten, who worked as a judge in Paramaribo on 11 July 1838. Being interested in botany, she regularly sent specimens of cultivated plants to the botanical gardens in Holland, collected on trips through Java with her husband. Personal tragedy and financial disaster struck with her husband's death in 1847, leaving her with large debts and a young family of five, a situation much like that faced by Maria Sibylla Merian and Elizabeth Blackwell. Aware of the demand in Europe for lavishly illustrated floral works, she set about producing 40 plates depicting interesting plant species from Java.

Her attempts to publish the work were unsuccessful until she acquired the patronage of Sophia Mathilde, wife of King William III of the Netherlands. The exceptionally well-executed chromolithographs were done by Pieter De Pannemaeker, the Belgian lithographer operating from Ghent.

Despite the book's running to a number of editions, Berthe van Nooten died in straitened circumstances in Batavia when 74 years old.

References

1. VLDesignprints

External links

• Botanicus

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