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Elisa Marie Thornam (12 March 1857 – 22 April 1901) was a Danish landscape painter and botanical illustrator who contributed to the Flora Danica and Botanisk Tidsskrift.
Life and career
Thornam was born in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. She died on 22 April 1901 in Copenhagen. Her father was the painter and botanical illustrator Johan Christian Thornam (1822–1908), who taught botanical illustration and served as artist on the Galathea Expedition of 1845. A landscape painter, Thornam was a student of painters Hans Fischer and Andreas Fritz. She colored her father's contributions to the Flora Danica botanical compendium, published 1761-1883. Thornam and her father also collaborated on illustrations for the 1866 Botanisk Tidsskrift, a Danish botanical journal.
Botanical illustrations
Images by C. and M. Thornam from Biodiversity Heritage Library, Botanisk Tiddskrift.
References
= Bibliography
=Kiærskou, Hjalmar, ed. (1877–1879). Botanisk Tidsskrift (in Danish). Vol. 2 (3rd ed.). Copenhagen: H. Hagerup – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.