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Jemima Blackburn
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Born in Edinburgh, Edinburgh and the Lothians
Born in 1823
Died in 1909

Born 1823. Died 1909 - Scottish painter.


One of most popular illustrators in Victorian Britain. Illustrated 27 books including Birds from Nature (1862, 1868). Painted watercolours showing daily family life in late nineteenth Scottish Highlands.

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