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Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to botanist & photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father & received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cyanotype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cyanotype</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Botany</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womensHistoryMonth</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a>. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,🧵<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomer</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This <a href="https://spore.social/tags/lino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lino</a> block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠ ⁠ Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/n ⁠ <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/dye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dye</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chemist</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/FashionHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FashionHistory</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/purple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purple</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mauve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mauve</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/colour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colour</a>

John Bloor PrintmakerAnother print which is almost sold out is this Sea Holly House print, made in 2020.This is very much from the era when I was making "construtions" of things like driftwood, pebbles and rope. It is printed in three colours and is A4 in size. An edition of 30.<a href="https://beige.party/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/printmaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaker</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/seaholly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seaholly</a>

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