Died 1983 | Books Dinosaurs | |
 | ||
Marjorie Maitland Howard (1898-1983) was a versatile modeller, sculptor, and book illustrator who was associated with the Institute of Archaeology in London where she worked from 1948 to 1960.
Contents
Early life
Marjorie Maitland Howard was born in 1898.
Career
Howard had an early career in book illustration, producing an illustrated edition of the Fables of Aesop that was published by John Lane at The Bodley Head in 1926. She also illustrated Elizabeth Ward's Who goes to the wood (Lutterworth, 1940).
In 1946, she illustrated Frederick Zeuner's Dating the past: An introduction to geochronology which went through several editions and was still in print in 1970.
From 1948 until her retirement in 1960, she worked at the Institute of Archaeology, now part of University College London. She created models for Frederick Zeuner to use in his lectures and busts of V. Gordon Childe (c.1958) and Mortimer Wheeler.
In 1956, she supervised archaeological work at Balawat for the British Institute for the Study of Iraq and subsequently prepared drawings of the Balawat Gates.
Later life
After her retirement from the Institute of Archaeology she continued to illustrate books, collaborating particularly with Ian Wolfram Cornwall on his series of books about the prehistoric world. She died in 1983.