#Anne Ophelia Dowden

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A page from 'Shakespeare’s Flowers' by Jessica Kerr, Illustrated by Anne Ophelia Dowden, 1975

Anne Ophelia Dowden (1907-2007, US) She is considered one of the world's foremost botanical illustrators. She wrote and illustrated 20 books. Her works are primarily found in children’s books, however, readers of Life, Natural History, Audubon and the Country Journal could also enjoy her realistic renderings of all kinds of plants.

An article about Anne https://www.womeninhorticulture.com/post/anne-ophelia-dowden-author-and-illustrator

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Nasturtium From The Lore & Legends of Flowers, Robert L. Crowell, 1982. Illustrator: Anne Ophelia Dowden

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In memory of a friend: The Sun Shines Through You Still, woodblock on paper with watercolors - 2024

A reinterpretation of Anne Ophelia Dowden’s Sunflowers

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spreads from Shakespeare's Flowers, by Jessica Kerr ill. Anne Ophelia Dowden

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As I'm currently indexing this blog or, rather, meta-tagging posts in my new version of it on the Blogger website (I will post proper link as soon as it's finished), I decided to compile a list of all the women who feature (or receive a mention however fleetingly) within it. I have tried to trawl the blog ''with a fine toothcomb'', but I'm bound to have missed a few names - oh well! Here is the list as complete as I can muster. The women appear in (broadly) alphabetical order by first name. *** NB it is still a work in progress ***

VOCALISTS & MUSICIANS

Alice Waterhouse (flute) * Amy Winehouse * Angel Olsen * Annie June Callaghan * Ari Up & The Slits * Be Good Tanyas, The * Billie Holiday * Bjork * Black Belles, The * Cait O’ Riordan (Pogues) * Calista Williams (Bluebird) * Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson (The B52s) * Cistem Failure * Clementine Douglas * Cosey Fanni Tutti * DakhaBrakha (well, 3/4 of them!) * Debbie Harry * Edith Piaf * Elizabeth Morris (Allo Darlin') * Holly Golightly * HoneyLuv * Katy-Jane Garside * Kelis * Kim Deal (Pixies & Breeders) * Maxine Peake * Maxine Venton & Mimi O'Malley (Captain Hotknives) * Meg White * Melanie Safka * Nico * Nina Simone * Patti Rothberg * Penny Ford (Snap!) * PJ Harvey * Rhoda Dakar (Special AKA) * Seamonsters, The * Siouxsie Sioux * Suzanne Vega * Tray Tronic * Trish Keenan (Broadcast)

VISUAL ARTS

Annegret Soltau * Anne Ophelia Dowden * Artemisia Gentileschi * Barbara Regina Dietzsch * Beverly Joubert * Camille Claudel * Clara Peeters * Dale DeArmond * Doreen Fletcher * Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale * Élisabeth Sonrel * Elisabetta Siriani * Elizabeth Mary Watt * Ella Hawkins * Evelyn De Morgan * Frida Kahlo * Gertrude Abercrombie * Helen Martins * Kate Gough * Laura Knight (Dame) * Leonora Carrington * Lily Delissa Joseph * Liza Ferneyhough * Magdolna Ban * Mandy Payne* Mary Delany * Miina Akkijrkka * Ndidi Ekubia * Pamela Colman-Smith * Paula Rego * Rachel Gale * 'Romany Soup' * Sarah Vivien * Shirley Baker * Siirkka-Liisa Konttinen * Sofonisba Anguissola * Sonia Delaunay * Tish Murtha * Vali Myers * Vanessa Bell

COMEDY, DANCE & DRAMA

Alicia Eyo & Carol Morley ('Stalin My Neighbour') * Claire Foy * Daisy May Cooper * Gabrielle Creevy & Jo Hartley ('In My Skin') * Isadora Duncan * Jessica Williams ('Love Life') * Lesley Sharp, Michelle Holmes & Siobhan Finneran ('Rita, Sue & Bob Too') * Michaela Coel ('I May Destroy You') * Morgana Robinson * Samantha Morton * Yasmin Paige (Jordana Bevan in ‘Submarine)

WRITERS, JOURNALISTS, SCHOLARS & POETS

Agatha Christie (MBE) * Andrea Dunbar * Anaïs Nin * Angela Thirkell * Anna Funder * Anna Wickham * Edith Holden * Elizabeth O'Neill * Enid Blyton * Harriet Beecher Stowe * Helen Castor (Dr.) * Hilary Mantel * Janina Ramirez (Dr.) * Jeannette Kupfermann * Jenny March (Dr.) * Jenny Wormald (Dr.) * Lia Leendertz * Mary Oliver * Orna Guralnik (Dr.) * Rachel Beer * Susie Boniface * Virginia Woolf

HISTORICAL FIGURES

Anne, Queen of Great Britain * Anne Boleyn, Queen of England * Anne of Cleves, Queen of England * Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni * Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes * Catherine de’ Medici, Queen Consort/Regent of France * Catherine Parr, Queen of England * Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England * Catherine of Valois, Queen of England * Christine de Pizan * Cixi, Empress of China (aka  Empress Tz'u-hsi ) * Eleanora of Austria, Queen of France * Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France; Queen of England; Duchess of Aquitaine * Eleanor of Castile * Eleanor Talbot ("The Secret Queen") * Elizabeth I Queen of England * Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England * Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of England * Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia * Hatshepsut, Pharaoh of Egypt *Hildegard of Bingen * Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France * Isabella I, Queen of Castile * Isabella of Aragon, Princess of Asturias * Isabella of Portugal, Empress Consort of Holy Roman Empire and Queen Consort of Spain, Germany & Italy * Isabella of France, Queen of England * Jacquetta of Luxemburg * Jane Grey (Lady), Queen of England for Nine Days * Jane Seymour, Queen of England * Juana (aka Joanna), Queen of Castile * Katherine Howard, Queen of England * Louise of Savoy, Regent of France * Margaret of Anjou, Queen Consort of England * Margaret of Austria [check which one] * Margaret Beaufort, Lady * Marie Antoinette, Queen of France * Mary I, Queen of England * Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland & Ireland * Mary, Queen of Scots * Mary of Austria [check which one] * Mary of Burgundy, Duchess * Matilda, Holy Roman Empress * Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem * Sophia of Hanover, Electress * Tatya Betul, Empress of Ethiopia * Theodora, Empress of Byzantium * Victoria, Queen of England & Empress of India

SAINTS & BIBLICAL/CHRISTIAN REFERENCES

Anna (wife of Tobit) * Apollonia (Saint) * Barbara (Saint) * Catherine of Alexandria (Saint) * Ecclesia * Eve (the first woman) * Felicitas of Rome (Saint) * Genevieve (Saint) * Godeberta * Jael * Jezebel * Judith * Lucy (Saint) * Margaret of Scotland (Saint) * Mary Magdalene * Rahab * Rose of Lima (Saint) * Synagoga * The Queen of Sheba * Thérèse of Lisieux (Saint) * Virgin Mary, The* "Whore of Babylon", The * Ursula (Saint)

MYTHOLOGICAL

Anat * Asherah * Astarte * Atalanta * Aurora * Baba Yaga * Circe * Chhinnamasta * Clio/Kleio * Demeter (Rmn: Ceres) * Dido, Queen of Carthage * Durga * Elaine of Astolat * Europa * Eurydice * Hathor * Hesperides * Io * Isolde/Iseult * Isis * Juno (Gk: Hera) * Kali * Kriemhild/Gudrun * Kudshu * Lakshmi * Persephone (Rmn: Proserpine) * Radha * Sabine Women, The * Sati * Sedna * Sirens, The (half-female, half-bird) * Three Graces, The * Valkyries, The * Venus (Aphrodite)

WIVES, MUSES, CONSORTS & SIGNIFICANT OTHERS

Anastasia Romanovna (wife of Ivan the Terrible) * Anne Hyde (1st wife of James, Duke of York; she did not live long enough to see him become James II) * Anne Lovell (wife of Sir Francis Lovell) * Anne of Denmark (wife of James VI of Scotland/James I of England & Ireland) * Bella Chagall (wife of Marc Chagall) * Catherine of Braganza (wife of Charles II) * Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Queen of England as wife of George III) * Clementine Churchill (wife of Winston Churchill) * Diane de Poitiers (royal mistress to the French king, Henry II) * Emma Hamilton, Lady (mistress of Lord Horatio Nelson) * Evelyn Pyke-Nott (wife of John Byam Shaw) * Françoise Gilot (partner of Pablo Picasso) * Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (mother of Lady Jane Grey) * Henrietta-Maria (wife of Charles I) * Lady Martha Temple (wife of Sir William Temple) * MacDonald sisters, The (Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa) * Marguerite of Navarre/Angoulême (sister of French king, Francis I) * Mary of Modena (2nd wife of James VI and I, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland) * Mary Shelley (mentioned as wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, though a renowned author in her own right) * Mary Soames (daughter of Winston Churchill & wife of Christopher Soames) * Mary Stuart (daughter of Charles I and mother of the future William III) * Mary Watts (wife of George Frederic Watts, and designer and artist in her own right) * Olga Khokhlova (1st wife of Pablo Picasso) * Portia (wife of Brutus) *

2OTH CENTURY & MODERN DAY

Christabel Pankhurst * Emily Wilding Davison * Emmeline Pankhurst * 'Gulabi Gang' * Hannah Hauxwell * Helen Keller * Hilary Clinton * Liz Truss * Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll * Mata Hari * Melina Mercouri * Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe * Rahima Mahmut * Sylvia Pankhurst *

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Anne Ophelia Dowden

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Anne Ophelia T. Dowden, herooo.

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Flowers & Their Latin Names (Pt. 2)

Artwork by Anne Ophelia Dowden

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Natural History Museum Opens Cannabis Exhibit

The University of Colorado’s Museum of Natural History in Boulder will launch “Cannabis: A Visual Perspective,” opening in the museum’s BioLounge on September 8, and an artist’s reception will take place on the night before on September 7. The event will focus on the science and art behind the classification of the cannabis plant.

The exhibit will feature a juried selection of 20 illustrations, in watercolor, acrylic, oil, colored pencil, pastel, print and mixed media, provided by the Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists. Botanical drawings of cannabis date back to the Byzantine Empire and beyond. The illuminated manuscript Vienna Dioscorides, written in Arabic and Greek, was compiled circa 512 A.D. and features a scientifically accurate botanical drawing of a hemp plant.

Organizers of the exhibit hope to merge science and art. “This is the first exhibit of its kind that we know of in the United States,” Suzanne Balog, the museum’s Event and Communications Specialist, told the Daily Camera. “We really want to focus on the artistic process as well as use this as a launching point to talk about the science that’s happening on campus on this flowering species of plant.”

Artists will include Susan T. Fisher, who sketched an etching of Charlotte’s Web, before embarking on more cannabis-related art projects. Fisher said that she has a “huge respect” for the cannabis industry. Fisher cites the late botanical artists Ida Pemberton and Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden, who also sketched cannabis, as her source of inspiration. “Illustration for scientific purposes is a very exact and precise art form,” Fisher said. “It has to be just right all the way down to the leaf veins. If it’s for scientific observation, the requirements are very tough. The art has to be precise and recognizable.”

The exhibit will also inform guests about the University of Colorado’s $839,500 grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which will be used to study the effects of high-potency cannabis.

The exhibit runs through January 31, 2018.

Source

http://ireadculture.com/natural-history-museum-opens-cannabis-exhibit/

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After Anne Ophelia Dowden

Anne Ophelia Dowden was a scientific illustrator who lived in Denver during the early 1900's and really got Botanical illustration started as a recognized art form.  She worked in watercolor and did full-plant compositions.  I did this lovely orchid after studying her style, and it's part of my portfolio.

Media: Watercolor, Gauche, and Watercolor Pencil on Strathmore Mixed Media Paper.

Size: 16 x 20 inches

Time 40 hours

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Marigolds From The Lore & Legends of Flowers, Robert L. Crowell, 1982. Illustrator: Anne Ophelia Dowden

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Pages from 'Shakespeare’s Flowers' by Jessica Kerr, illustrated by Anne Ophelia Dowden.

Notes:

English playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) liked to use flowers to illustrate his ideas about people: their appearance, characters and actions. During this period, people believed in fairies and witches, poison brews, love potions, spells and signs, mysterious portents in the heavens and omens of disaster. Shakespeare's plays which contain the most mentions of flowers are 'A Winter's Tale' and 'Midsummer's Night Dream'. Gillyvors are the same species as the carnation. Two hundred years before Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer spelt the word as 'gylofore'. The flower has a rich, pungent scent of cloves and is used to make a delicious wine [the prime ingredient of which is apples].

I made quite a few notes from this book while I was staying at a backpackers' hostel which has its own mini-library. Subjects such as the apothecaries of Buckleberry Street in London (the aroma from various herbal concoctions was so pungent it could be detected from some distance); the saying that a dim-witted person had "eaten darnel", because the weed darnel was said to cause blindness or poor eyesight; the 'fleur de Louis' which later became known as the 'fleur-de-lys', was originally* used by the twelfth century French king Louis VII in the Second Crusade, and later incorporated into the English coat of arms in the fourteenth century by Edward III of England (acc. to the book, the symbol remained - strangely- for 250 years after the possession of Calais had been returned - *needs checking).

Other facts: the stems of the rosemary bushes were used to make the musical instrument, the lute; an Elizabethan greengrocer was known as a 'pepperer'; in England, the first Sunday in April was (and apparently still is) known as ‘Daffodil Sunday’; the word ‘pansy’ comes from the French word ‘pansee’ for ‘thought’; ‘ruth’ is an old word meaning ‘pity’, or being full of compassion and empathy for others. It has since been overtaken in modern parlance by its antonym, ‘ruthless’.

*As is often the case, there are lots of other origin stories on the Internet regarding the fleur-de-lys and its symbolism. I'd have to do a lot of research to cobble together a definitive piece about it, which I may well do one day, but I already have a job list as long as the Nile!

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Anne Ophelia Dowden. Discovered this lady's work via Shakespeare's Flowers by Jessica Kerr and am now determined to find more.

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Flowers & Their Latin Names (Pt. 3)

Artwork by Anne Ophelia Dowden

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[woodlandcomforts]

Flowers & Their Latin Names

Artwork by Anne Ophelia Dowden

❧ find some comfort here ☙