{"title":"Bowdich, Sarah","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Eglonton Bowdich Lee, née Wallis (1791-1856)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an English writer, illustrator, traveller, zoologist, botanist, and pteridologist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Eglonton Wallis was born on 10 September 1791, the only daughter of John Eglinton Wallis of Colchester.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1813, she married the naturalist Thomas Edward Bowdich, whose interests in nature, travel, and adventure she shared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1819, they went to Paris to visit Baron Cuvier; Thomas had previously visited him in 1818 with a letter of introduction obtained from Dr. William Elford Leach of the British Museum. They spent most of the next four years in Paris studying his collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1823, on their final trip to Africa, they visited Madeira on their way, but her husband died on the Gambia River on 10 January 1824.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeft with three children, she struggled to support her family as an author. Early in her widowhood, Mrs Bowdich often visited Baron Cuvier in Paris, where he treated her almost like a daughter; upon his death in 1832, she wrote a memoir of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1826, she married Robert Lee and, in subsequent years published under the name Mrs. Robert Lee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1854, she was granted a civil list pension of £50 per year. In 1856, she died at Erith while visiting her daughter Eugenia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf her numerous works, perhaps the four most important are Taxidermy (1820) an exhaustive treatment which came to a sixth edition in 1843; Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo (1825), a work of natural history; The Fresh-Water Fishes of Great Britain (1825), illustrated by the author,  and Memoirs of Baron Cuvier (1833).\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bowdich-sarah-1791-1856-flounder-1828","title":"Bowdich, Sarah (1791-1856) - Flounder 1828","description":"\u003cp\u003ePicture by Sarah Bowdich from Fresh-water fishes of Great Britain 1828.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 5020 pixels wide by 4050 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/bowdich-sarah\" title=\"Sarah Bowdich\"\u003eSarah Bowdich\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61473447641418,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Bowdich_Sarah_1791-1856_-Fresh-waterfishesofGreatBritain1828-Flounder_main.jpg?v=1774965789"},{"product_id":"bowdich-sarah-1791-1856-roach-1828","title":"Bowdich, Sarah (1791-1856) - Roach 1828","description":"\u003cp\u003ePicture by Sarah Bowdich from Fresh-water fishes of Great Britain 1828.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 5004 pixels wide by 4068 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/bowdich-sarah\" title=\"Sarah Bowdich\"\u003eSarah Bowdich\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61473548796234,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Bowdich_Sarah_1791-1856_-Fresh-waterfishesofGreatBritain1828-Roach_main.jpg?v=1774965788"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/collections\/Bowdich_Sarah_1791-1856-2869509.jpg?v=1774965690","url":"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/bowdich-sarah.oembed","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}