Anna Maria Thelott (1683–1710) was a

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artist. She was an engraver, an illustrator, a

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-artist, and a

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painter.

Biography

Anna Maria Thelott was born in Uppsala, Sweden. She was the daughter of engraver and watchmaker Philip Jacob Thelott the Elder (1635-1710), She was the sister of academic Philip Jacob Thelott the Younger (1682-1750) and half-sister of the engraver Olof Thelott (ca 1670-1728). Her parents had emigrated from Switzerland to

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in the 1670s. She and her brothers were educated by her father in his trade, and active as the assistants in his studio as children. They were all assigned to assist him when he was commissioned by Olof Rudbeck (1630-1702) to illustrate his four volumes work ''Atlantica'' (''Atland eller Manheim'') and ''Campus Elysii''. She also accepted individual commissions early own to contribute to the support of the family. She performed commissions of illustrations by method of drawing,

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, copper

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, India ink and

. Among her many commissions were

for the paper ''Posttidningen'',

for prayer books and, in collaboration with her brother Philip, India ink for the illustration of weapons. She made eleven woodcuts of

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cities with texts for the paper ''Posttidningen'' in 1706. She was also frequently illustrated the work of

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(1654–1720). Her motif include animals, landscapes, allegory, maps and religious motives. She signed her work "Anna Marija ein geborene Thelotten". After the great fire of Uppsala in 1702, the family moved to Stockholm. Her father lived in her household rather than that of her brothers, and she supported him when he could no longer work. In 1710, Anna Maria Thelott became one of the many victims of the 1710–1713 plague of Sweden, and died in Stockholm at the age of twenty-seven. She left a sketch book composed in 1704-1709, which is preserved at the

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References

Other sources

* Österberg, Carin et al., ''Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare''. Lund: Signum 1990. ()
Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 28. Syrten-vikarna - Tidsbestämning /
* En mamsell i akademien. Ulrica Fredrica Pasch och 1700-talets konstvärld. av Anna Lena Lindberg, Stockholm: Signum, 2010.

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