Priscilla Susan Bury

Priscilla Susan Bury was a self-taught artist and botanical illustrator who, despite her lack of formal training, created one of the largest, most unusual, and rarest 19th-century botanical folios, A Selection of Hexandrian Plants. Growing up in Victorian England, Bury was exposed to a thriving horticultural atmosphere that inspired her interest in plants and gave her ample resources to work from. Throughout her career, Bury contributed numerous illustrations to major botanical magazines and published her own folio A Selection of Hexandrian Plants.