Margaret Roscoe

Margaret Roscoe
Born 1786
Died 1840
Occupation Scientific Illustrator and author
Spouse(s) Edward Roscoe
Parent(s) John Lace and Margaret Griffies

Margaret Roscoe (née Lace ca. 1786-1840) was an early 19th-century English botanical illustrator and author.

Work

Plate 17 from Floral illustrations of the seasons, Paeonia tenufolia by Margaret Roscoe

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.[1] She went on to write and illustrate Floral Illustrations of the Seasons.[2] 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.[3]

Roscoe died in 1840. A memorial sculpture commemorating Roscoe and her husband was undertaken by sculptor John Gibson. This monument can be seen at the Ullet Road Unitarian Church in Liverpool.[4]

The standard author abbreviation M.Roscoe is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

Family

Roscoe was the daughter of Margaret Griffies and her husband, John Lace, an attorney from Liverpool.[6] Roscoe married her cousin Edward Roscoe, the son of William Roscoe in 1810.[1][6] She had three children who were the poet and novelist Margaret Sandbach,[1] William Roscoe and Edward Henry Roscoe.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Margaret Roscoe". www.rossbayvilla.org. Ross Bay Villa Historic House Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  2. ↑ Roscoe, Margaret (1831). Floral illustrations of the seasons, consisting of the most beautiful, hardy and rare herbaceous plants cultivated in the flower garden, from drawings. London: Robert Havell. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Portraits of a Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium". www.huntbotanical.org. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Gibson, John". A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851. Henry Moore Foundation. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  5. ↑ IPNI.  M.Roscoe.
  6. 1 2 Dickinson, R. (1957). "James Nasmyth and the Liverpool iron trade." (PDF). Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 108: 83–104. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  7. ↑ "Margaret Roscoe". www.geni.com. GENi. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
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