Musée No:325.226 or-landscape A set of four seaweed

A set of four seaweed studies by the artist Margaret Gatty

These works and their images led to motifs from Baalbek and Palmyra becoming fashionable for ceiling and interior decorations in England and Italy

As a young man he saved money from odd jobs in order to attend art school

She received her training at the Rijksakademie

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Musée No:325.226 or-landscape A set of four seaweedSeaweed Study Charcoal Artist: Margaret Gatty Date: 1809 1879 Margaret Gatty (1809 1873) was an English children's author and writer on marine biology. She wrote the illustrated British Sea Weeds, published in 1872. It was the outcome of 14 years' work and described 200 species. It continued to be used into the 1950s.