Emily Jane Thwaits (c. 1860 in Cape Town – 21 February 1906 in Cape Town) was a South African botanical illustrator.[1]
Disa purpurascens Bolus
Biography
editEmily was one of a family of seven, her sibling Frances Thwaits being another noted botanical illustrator who had contributed original paintings for Rudolf Marloth's "Flora of South Africa". Their grandfather, Thomas Thwaits, had come to Cape Town from England and had become art master at a school in Roeland Street founded by the Rev. James J. Beck.[2]
References
edit- ^ 'A Century of Cape Botanical Art' - JP Rourke (1988)
- ^ "South African Commercial Advertiser 1835 - 4 - October to December - eGGSA Newspaper Extracts".
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