Spouse(s) Edward Roscoe | Died 1840 | |
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Occupation Scientific Illustrator and author Parent(s) John Lace and Margaret Griffies | ||
Margaret Roscoe (née Lace ca. 1786-1840) was an early 19th-century English botanical illustrator and author.
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Work
Roscoe illustrated plates in William Roscoe's botanical work Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae: Chiefly Drawn from Living Specimens in the Botanical Gardens at Liverpool. She went on to write and illustrate Floral Illustrations of the Seasons. A plate from this work was displayed in the 2012 exhibition "Portraits of a Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium" held at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.
Roscoe died in 1840. A memorial sculpture commemorating Roscoe and her husband was undertaken by sculptor John Gibson. This monument can be seen at the Ullet Road Unitarian Church in Liverpool.
The standard author abbreviation M.Roscoe is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.
Family
Roscoe was the daughter of Margaret Griffies and her husband, John Lace, an attorney from Liverpool. Roscoe married her cousin Edward Roscoe, the son of William Roscoe in 1810. She had three children who were the poet and novelist Margaret Sandbach, William Roscoe and Edward Henry Roscoe.