Madeleine Charlotte Fawkes
Illustration — Berkheya purpurea (DC.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Mast. Madeleine Charlotte Fawkes ('Madge') (14 December 1880 Malta - 15 September 1954 Black Bourton) was an English botanical illustrator. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Also recorded as M. C. Fawkes
Madeleine Charlotte Fawkes
- Born
- 1880 · Malta.
- Died
- 1954 · Black Bourton.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · United Kingdom
- Occupation
- botanical illustrator · painter · botanical collector
- Education
- Slade School of Fine Art
- Honours
- Grenfell Medal
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Berkheya purpurea (DC.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Mast. Madeleine Charlotte Fawkes ('Madge') (14 December 1880 Malta - 15 September 1954 Black Bourton) was an English botanical illustrator. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.
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During visits to her brother Valentine Fawkes, who farmed near Ficksburg in South Africa, she painted the local flora, and was awarded the Grenfell Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society for her depictions of Lesotho wild flowers.
Madeleine Charlotte Fawkes is recorded as botanical illustrator, painter and botanical collector. Recorded with the occupation botanical illustrator.
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1880
Madeleine Charlotte Fawkes born at Malta.
1954
Madeleine Charlotte Fawkes died at Black Bourton.
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- 1."Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists and Horticulturists" - Ray Desmond
- 2.Veld and Flora v.68, 1982, 93-94. Bothalia v.15, 1985, 637-38, portrait
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