Marianne North

What the record establishes about Marianne North.

Marianne North is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Marianne North is recorded with the occupation scientific illustrator. Marianne North is classed in the genre landscape painting. View of the Maharajah of Johore's House from Major McNair's Garden, Singapore is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN535). A Clump of Screw Pine and Palm with a Glimpse of the River, Sarawak, Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN571). Flowers and Fruit of the Cocoa Tree, Painted at Singapore is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN536).

View of the Matang over the Great Swamp, Sarawak, Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN564). Flowers and Fruit of the Doctor's Tree, Sarawak, Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN582). Foliage, Flowers and Fruit of Eugenia, Sarawak, Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN640). Foliage, Flowers and Fruit of a Swamp Shrub of Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN549). Moonlight View from the Istana, Sarawak, Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN540). Orchids and Other Flowers of Sarawak, Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN327).

Fruit of Sandoricum and Green Gaper, Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN537). View of Kuching and River, Sarawak, Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN543). Marianne North is recorded as botanical illustrator, painter, biologist, scientific illustrator and explorer. Two Climbing Shrubs, Painted at Singapore is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN592). Scorpion Orchid, Cultivated at Singapore is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN585). Limestone Mountains of Sarawak, Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN328).

View of the Hill of Tegora, Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN541). Areca or Betel-Nut Palm, Singapore is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN583). Palawan Trees, Sarawak, Borneo is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN565). Bornean Orchids is dated 1876 and held by Marianne North Gallery (inventory MN595).

Wikidata Query Service catalogues 40 works under this heading. Wellcome Collection catalogues 7 works under this heading. Open Library catalogues 16 works under this heading.

North, Marianne July 5, 1881 [to J. Gray] [postcard] (1881) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. North, Marianne Oct. 15 [no year] [to unknown] is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

The identifiers under which Marianne North may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Marianne North is established in the international name authorities as Social Networks and Archival Context w62k7501, Getty Union List of Artist Names 500032548, Bibliothèque nationale de France 14574251f, Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) 119263041, Library of Congress n80060872, Libraries Australia 855123, ISNI 0000000121248951, IdRef 117265144, VIAF 25408790 and Wikidata Q271648.

58 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1876 to 1893.

Open Seed-Vessels of a Species of Sterculia and a Nettle in Flower, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN281. Road Making in the Tegora Forest, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN591. A Climber in Flower and Fruit, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN574. Group of Wild Palms, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN576. The Breadfruit, Painted at Singapore, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN532. Flowers of Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN538. Orchids of Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN593. Foliage and Flowers of a Madagascar Tree at Singapore, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN343. A Bornean Pitcher Plant, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN555. Flowers of a Cassia with a Tree of the Same in the Distance, and Bornean Butterflies, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN332. River Scene at Sarawak, Borneo, when the Tide is Getting Low, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN607. Jak Fruit, Singapore, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN333. Walk under Palms with a Glimpse of the River at Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN548. 'Boro Bodo, Java', dated 1876, held by British Library, inventory WD3215. 'Dienge, Java, August 1876', dated 1876, held by British Library, inventory WD3216. Ijen Volcano and Papandayan Volcano, Java, dated 1876, held by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library, Art & Archives, inventory MNS9. Flowers and Fruit of the Cananga, Singapore, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN533. Bitter Wood in Flower and Fruit, Painted at Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN578. A Cultivated Crinum, Painted in Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN599. Palawan Trees, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN565. Foliage, Flowers and Fruit of Eugenia, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN640. Flowers and Fruit of the Cocoa Tree, Painted at Singapore, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN536. View of the Maharajah of Johore's House from Major McNair's Garden, Singapore, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN535. View of the Matang over the Great Swamp, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN564. A Clump of Screw Pine and Palm with a Glimpse of the River, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN571. View from the Istana, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN566. Two Climbing Shrubs, Painted at Singapore, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN592. View of the Hill of Tegora, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN541. View of Singapore from Dr Little's Garden, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN580. Fruit of Sandoricum and Green Gaper, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN537. Bornean Orchids, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN595. View of Kuching and River, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN543. Limestone Mountains of Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN328. Areca or Betel-Nut Palm, Singapore, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN583. Flowers and Fruit of the Doctor's Tree, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN582. Scorpion Orchid, Cultivated at Singapore, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN585. Moonlight View from the Istana, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN540. Orchids and Other Flowers of Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN327. Foliage, Flowers and Fruit of a Swamp Shrub of Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN549. The Tapang-Tree, Sarawak, Borneo, dated 1876, held by Marianne North Gallery, inventory MN530. Chilean flora through the eyes of Marianne North, 1884. Marianne North. Abundant beauty. Jordens lustgård. A vision of Eden. Recollections of a Happy Life: Being the Autobiography of Marianne North, dated 1892. Recollections of a happy life, dated 1892. Recollections of a happy life, being the autobiography of Marianne North. Recollections of a Happy Life 2 Volume Set. Recollections of a Happy Life (Volume 2). Marianne North Address Book. Marianne North Telephone Book. Some further recollections of a happy life. Some recollections of a happy life. Vision of Eden North. North, Marianne, dated 1880s, held by Wellcome Collection. Recollections of a happy life : being the autobiography of Marianne North / edited by her sister, Mrs. John Addington Symonds., dated 1893, held by Wellcome Collection. 'Phags-skyes-po (Sanskrit Virūḍhaka), the guardian of the south, and rNam-thos-sras (Sanskrit Vaísravaṇa), the guardian of the north. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter., held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 4 named public collections.

Marianne North Gallery: 115 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. British Library: 4 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library, Art & Archives: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 27 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

9 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

North, Marianne, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. North, Marianne (1830–1890), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018. Recollections of a happy life : being the autobiography of Marianne North, 1893. North, Marianne (1830–90), The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, 2004. Francisco Vidal Gormaz y Marianne North en el sur de Chile. Dos miradas científicas al paisaje, 1857-1884, AUS, 2025. Marianne North and Scientific Illustration, The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660, 2022. The Australian paintings of Marianne North, 1880–1881: landscapes ‘doomed shortly to disappear’., 2020. Marianne North vive em Virginia Woolf, 2019. Marianne North’s paintings of Australian gardens, 1880-81, 2018.

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (5288292-5). Those registers additionally record the forms Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, Thames). Marianne North Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, Thames). North Gallery and North Gallery.

5 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

North, Marianne undated [Mon.] [to J. Gray] — Internet Archive. North, Marianne July 5, 1881 [to J. Gray] [postcard] (1881) — Internet Archive. North, Marianne Dec. 26 [no year] [to J. Gray] — Internet Archive. North, Marianne undated [Fri.] [to J. Gray] — Internet Archive. North, Marianne Oct. 15 [no year] [to unknown] — Internet Archive.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 29 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 7 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 7 means 7 genuinely separate publishers of record. 11 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

the recorded working language is English.

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are floral and landscape.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Jamaica, Brazil and Tenerife.

Works named in the authority record are Marianne North Gallery.

Work by Marianne North is recorded in the collections of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library, Art & Archives and British Library.