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Last Name Bury

Given Name Priscilla Susan °

alt. Names P. S. B. ; Priscilla Susan Faulkner / Mrs. Edward Bury / Mrs. E. Bury ;

Marriage railway engineer Edward Bury (1794-1858) in 1830

Children

Year born 1793 / 1799 in Liverpool, UK

Year died 1872

Place of death Croydon, England, UK

Father's occupation merchant, justice of peace & high sheriff Edward Dean Faulkner

Relatives John Tarlton MP (grandfather) ; Susan Precilla Bertie (grandmother) ;

Education

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for Benjamin Maund (1790-1863): Botanic Garden (1825) ; B. Maund & John Stevens Henslow: The Botanist (1837) ; botanist William Roscoe (1753-1831) ; P. S. Bury: Hexandrian Plants (1831-4) ; Chr. Johnson: Figures Poycyctins (1860-1) ;

Patronage William Swainson ; William Roscoe ; Maund's The Botanist 1837-46 ;

Collaborators engraver ->Robert Havell Jr. ; ->S. Watts ; engraver Nevill ; artist-> E. Maund, ; artist S. Maund ; A. I. Withers ; Edwin D. Smith ; Mills ; Jane Taylor ;

Techniques botanical, entomological, and zoological drawing, watercoloures, and painting

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Priscilla_Susan_Bury_c1790-c1870.jpg

Archival sources Liverpool City Libraries ; http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=1325&-max=25 ;

Published sources AKL ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78; Saunders 1995 ; Jack Kramer: Women of Flowers 1996: 76f. ; Gilbert 2000: 108-9 ; Chansigaud 2009: 126 ; Boris Jardine: Made Real, in: Science Museum Group Journal 2 (2014): fig. 22 ;

other Dumbarton Oaks, Maryland. PS Bury: Recollections of Edward Bury by his Widow 1860.

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