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watercolour

Mary Anning, 1799 - 1847.
This illustration, along with portraits of many other trailblazing women, will be available as part of a fundraising exhibition by The Global Women's Project .
The inaugural 'Trailblazing Women of Herstory' exhibition will be in Melbourne from 25 November to 10 December (across the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence) at Neospace Gallery in Collingwood. Sale of artwork and prints will support The Global Women's Project, a Melbourne-based nonprofit organisation resourcing women leading grassroots change in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the world.

Mary Anning defied custom and convention. As a lively and curious child, she learnt about fossil hunting, collecting and dealing from her father, and by age 26 she was running the family fossil business. She encouraged other women into paleontology, and corresponded with some of the great scientific minds of her generation, who, a contemporary wrote, “all acknowledge that she understands more of the science than anyone else in this Kingdom.” Despite this she struggled for due recognition, and wealthy men often published works that referenced her discoveries without crediting her. All her life she regularly braved danger to continue her work, excavating fossils from the unstable cliffs near Lyme Regis between one winter tide and the next.

Description
watercolour

Mary Anning, 1799 - 1847.
This illustration, along with portraits of many other trailblazing women, will be available as part of a fundraising exhibition by The Global Women's Project .
The inaugural 'Trailblazing Women of Herstory' exhibition will be in Melbourne from 25 November to 10 December (across the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence) at Neospace Gallery in Collingwood. Sale of artwork and prints will support The Global Women's Project, a Melbourne-based nonprofit organisation resourcing women leading grassroots change in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the world.

Mary Anning defied custom and convention. As a lively and curious child, she learnt about fossil hunting, collecting and dealing from her father, and by age 26 she was running the family fossil business. She encouraged other women into paleontology, and corresponded with some of the great scientific minds of her generation, who, a contemporary wrote, “all acknowledge that she understands more of the science than anyone else in this Kingdom.” Despite this she struggled for due recognition, and wealthy men often published works that referenced her discoveries without crediting her. All her life she regularly braved danger to continue her work, excavating fossils from the unstable cliffs near Lyme Regis between one winter tide and the next.