Gertrude Mary Woodward (1854–1939) was a British

scientific illustrator Technical Illustration is illustration meant to visually communicate information of a technical nature. Technical illustrations can be components of technical drawings or diagrams. Technical illustrations in general aim "to generate expressive ...

. The daughter of geologist Henry Bolingbroke Woodward and sister of illustrator Alice Woodward, she illustrated many palaeontological works for the

Natural History Museum, London The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum an ...

and was esteemed by her peers for the accuracy and quality of her

watercolour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

work. She illustrated the famous

Piltdown man The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human. Although there were doubts about its authenticity virtually from the beginning, the remains ...

fossils and other works by Arthur Smith Woodward (unrelated), as well as works by zoologist Ray Lankester. She often created illustrations for the still published, earth science journal co-founded by her father, titled '' Geological Magazine''.

Gallery

File:Paraceratherium.jpg, '' Paraceratherium'' jaw File:Notopogon lilliei.jpg, ''

Notopogon lilliei The crested bellowsfish or crested bellowfish, ''Notopogon lilliei'', is a species of fish from the family Macroramphosidae. It is a demersal species which occurs over the continental shelf at depths of . They grow to lengths of up to . This spe ...

'' A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford clay. Based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London (1910) (20864103542).jpg, ''

Liopleurodon ''Liopleurodon'' (; meaning 'smooth-sided teeth') is an extinct genus of large, carnivorous marine reptile belonging to the Thalassophonea, a clade of short-necked pliosaurid plesiosaurs. ''Liopleurodon'' lived from the Callovian Stage of the Mi ...

'' skulls File:PZSL1907Plate16.png, '' Potamonautes lirrangensis'' and other crabs

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1854 births 1939 deaths Scientific illustrators British women illustrators English illustrators Animal artists Paleoartists {{UK-illustrator-stub