Mary Battersby
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Mary Battersby, was an Irish
artist
and naturalist
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She was the unmarried daughter of Robert Battersby of Bobsville, County Meath, Ireland, who in 1763 married Marianne, daughter and co-heiress of Haynes Wade of Lislin, County Cavan, Ireland.
In 1837, the Royal Dublin Society
received four volumes of drawings from Miss Battersby who lived at 21 North Cumberland Street, Dublin. These were Flowers drawn from Nature ; Drawings from a collection of birds shot in Pennsylvania, North America by Robert Battersby Esq.; Native birds which were all shot in the County Meath and Drawings taken from a collection of stuffed birds in the Dublin Museum, 1820. One other painting set is in the Ulster Museum
. This gives the address of the artist as "No. 16 Mountjoy Square East"
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and naturalist
Naturalist
Naturalist may refer to:* Practitioner of natural history* Conservationist* Advocate of naturalism * Naturalist , autobiography-See also:* The American Naturalist, periodical* Naturalism...
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She was the unmarried daughter of Robert Battersby of Bobsville, County Meath, Ireland, who in 1763 married Marianne, daughter and co-heiress of Haynes Wade of Lislin, County Cavan, Ireland.
In 1837, the Royal Dublin Society
Royal Dublin Society
The Royal Dublin Society was founded on 25 June 1731 to "to promote and develop agriculture, arts, industry, and science in Ireland". The RDS is synonymous with its main premises in Ballsbridge in Dublin, Ireland...
received four volumes of drawings from Miss Battersby who lived at 21 North Cumberland Street, Dublin. These were Flowers drawn from Nature ; Drawings from a collection of birds shot in Pennsylvania, North America by Robert Battersby Esq.; Native birds which were all shot in the County Meath and Drawings taken from a collection of stuffed birds in the Dublin Museum, 1820. One other painting set is in the Ulster Museum
Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasures from the Spanish Armada, local history, numismatics, industrial...
. This gives the address of the artist as "No. 16 Mountjoy Square East"