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Anne Pratt was educated at Eastgate House, Rochester, and introduced to botany by Doctor Dods, a family friend.
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Anne Pratt was educated at Eastgate House, Rochester, and introduced to botany by Doctor Dods, a family friend.
The second of three daughters of Robert Pratt (1777–1819), a grocer, and Sara Bundock (1780–1845), Pratt was one of the best known English botanical illustrators of the Victorian age. Owing to poor health and a "stiff knee" in childhood, she missed out on "outdoor activities" and was encouraged to occupy herself by drawing. She moved to Brixton, London, in 1826, where she developed her career as an illustrator.
Anne Pratt died in Shepherd"s Bush, London.
Anne Pratt wrote more than 20 books, which she illustrated with chromolithographs on which she collaborated with William Dickes, an engraver skilled in the chromolithograph process. Her masterpiece is probably The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails, a six-volume project covering more than 1500 species, with 300 illustrations, that took over a decade to publish in full (1855–1873).
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