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Roberta Cowing Throckmorton (October 1860 - July 31, 1924) was an American artist, employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). [1]
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Roberta Cowing Throckmorton (October 1860 - July 31, 1924) was an American artist, employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). [1]
Roberta Cowing was born to William Jackson Cowing (1832–1893) and Matilda Helen Crupper Cowing (1837–1896) in October of 1860, in Rushville, Rush County, Indiana, USA. [2] She had one older brother, Frank Myrtle Cowing (1857–1894). [2]
Cowing was employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries [1] to paint watercolors of fruit and nut varieties, as part of the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection. The collection includes paintings of Prunus salicina (Japanese plum), Pyrus communis (pears), and Rubus (brambles). [3] [4] [5]
She made illustrations of plants collected in an 1891 botanical survey of Death Valley; the work was published in an educational journal. [6]
Collections from the U.S. National Herbarium published twenty-one drawings of plants collected in Death Valley in their November 1893 issue, seventeen of which were signed by Roberta Cowing. [7]
Today, Cowing's work can be found in Carnegie Mellon University's Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute: Public Domain Images, as well as in several USDA government publications:
Cowing was active in Washington, D.C. from 1887 to 1920. [12]
She resided at 1311 13th Street N.W. Washington, D.C. [13]
Roberta Cowing married Ernest Throckmorton at her parents' residence, on December 27, 1892. [14] Together, they had two sons, Robert W Throckmorton (1893–1952) and set designer Cleon Francis Throckmorton (1897–1965). [2] [15]
Roberta Cowing Throckmorton passed away at the age of 63, at George Washington University Hospital, [16] on July 31, 1924, and she was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. [2]
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