Everitt, Miss (McKechnie Section 1)

Recorded by Jackson (Dictionary), who mentions a number of silhouettes, including eleven seen at the Museum of the Royal Botanic Gardens, London, among a collection of portraits of botanists and pioneers of scientific exploration. The silhouettes by Miss Everitt include one of Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828), the botanist and founder of the Linnean Society, and another of Lilly Wigg (1759-1828), who contributed to Smith's English Botany, writing on algae and the history of esculent plants. Both pieces were inscribed 'Cut by Miss Everitt, September, 1807'. Both were described as being cut from brown paper, and they were presumably not embellished in any way. They were probably bust-length.