Anna Atkins
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 153 years ago |
Date of birth | March 16,1799 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | Tonbridge |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | June 9,1871 |
Died | Sevenoaks District |
United Kingdom | |
Artworks | Foreign Ferns |
Asplenium radicans (Jamaica) | |
Spouse | John Pelly Atkins |
Parents | John George Children |
Hester Anne Children | |
Job | Photographer |
Plant Biologist | |
Books | Sun gardens |
The perils of fashion | |
Memoir of J. G. Children, esq. [signed A. A. ]. | |
Field | Botany, Photography |
Influences | Henry Fox Talbot |
Sir John Frederick William Herschel | |
John George Children | |
Works | Leucojam Varium |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 440033 |
Anna Atkins Life story
Anna Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woman to create a photograph.