Mary Anne Stebbing

Mary Anne Stebbing FLS (née Saunders; 11 September 1845[1] – 21 January 1927)[2] was a botanist and botanical illustrator.[3][4] She was the daughter of botanist and entomologist William Wilson Saunders and wife of zoologist Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing.[5] Many of Stebbing's illustrations were destroyed in an 1881 house fire, but some surviving illustrations are held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[6][7][8]

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  1. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
  2. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
  3. Bynum, Helen; Bynum, William. "Behind the scenes of the most beautiful botanical sketches". Popular Science. Retrieved 12 August 2018. Mary Anne Stebbing (1845-1927) was from a family described as a 'very nest of naturalists'.
  4. Sheffield, Suzanne Le-May (2006). "Gendered Collaborations: Marrying Art and Science". In Shteir, Ann B.; Lightman, Bernard (eds.). Figuring it Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture. UPNE. pp. 257–260. ISBN 9781584656036. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  5. "Stebbing Collection". King's College London Special Collections. King's College London. Retrieved 12 August 2018. At Reigate Stebbing came into contact with the botanist and entomologist William Wilson Saunders, whose daughter Mary Anne he married in 1867.
  6. "Mary Anne botanist and illustrator 1845-1927". The Saleroom. Retrieved 12 August 2018. Youngest daughter of W.W. Saunders author of Refugium botanicum was married to the zoologist T.R.R. Stebbing. In December 1904 she was one of the first women to become a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London, and was an enthusiastic botanist attempting to illustrate British flora in watercolour. Most of her drawings were destroyed by fire but there are some at Kew.
  7. "Stebbing, Mary Anne (c1846-1927), botanist". National Archives. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  8. Meier, Allison. "A Book Gathers Botanical Sketches from Across the Centuries". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 12 August 2018. The authors note that as these sketchbooks were usually preparatory work for illustrations, or accompanied scientific field notes, they weren’t often saved. Some have been disappeared over the years, such as the British flowering plant drawings by Mary Anne Stebbing burned in an 1881 house fire...
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