A. K. Wollstonecraft: una ilustradora botánica del siglo XIX en la isla de Cuba. Principales datos biográficos y una aproximación a su obra Specimens of the plants and fruits of the Island of Cuba (1826)

Elisa Garrido

doi:10.3989/asclepio.2023.09

Authors

Elisa Garrido Universidad Autónoma de Madrid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1789-8764

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2023.09

Keywords:

Art, Science, Illustration, Botany, Gender studies, Visual studies

Abstract

Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft was born in October 1781. The first information we have about her places her in the United States, where she would travel to Matanzas (Cuba), residing there for several years and working on a great manuscript on illustrated botany, until her death. death, May 16, 1828. The work of Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft -A. K. Wollstonecraft- includes observations on more than one hundred types of plants on the Island of Cuba through botanical classification, it also includes data on the etymology of its nomenclature, uses and applications, and data on the historical facts that surrounding their own personal reflections; which makes this work an extraordinary manuscript that travels through science, art, and travelogues. This paper explores the main references of the biographical data known to date and an introductory analysis of her illustrated botanical work.

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