scientific illustrator
Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming.
Scottish aristocrat, horticulturalist, palaeontologist (1795-1842)
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About Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming
Eliza Maria, Lady Gordon-Cumming was a Scottish aristocrat, horticulturalist, palaeontologist and scientific illustrator. Lady Gordon-Cumming collected and studied Devonian fish fossils from the Old Red Sandstone of Morayshire, Scotland. She amassed a large and well-known collection which she illustrated, along with her daughter Lady Anne Seymour. Lady Gordon-Cumming worked with other palaeontologists and geologists of the time including Louis Agassiz, William Buckland and Roderick Murchison.
Everything about Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming →- Occupation
- scientific illustrator, geologist, aristocrat, horticulturist
- Born
- 1795
- Died
- April 1842, 1842