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Miss Drake, or Sarah Anne Drake, was a botanical artist and illustrator. She was born in 1803 in Skeleton, Norfolk, in the United Kingdom, and was a childhood friend of Anne Lindley, wife of the botanist John Lindley. In 1830 Miss Drake moved into the Lindleys' house in London and lived with the family until 1847. It is not clear in what capacity she was brought into the household (possibly as governess to the children), but her talent was soon recognized by Lindley, who set her to work as an illustrator of plant specimens. Soon after she moved into the household, then, Lindley began training Miss Drake. Miss Drake was called "Ducky" in the family and gradually developed into a very talented botanical artist. She became very accomplished and illustrated many of the pictures in Lindley's publications and also in other works such as Edwards' Botanical Register. In 1840 Lindley named the genus Drakaea in her honour when he described the specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony as a single species, Drakaea elastica.
Although Miss Drake was a gifted orchid illustrator, Drake's illustrations were by no means only of orchids, she also created numerous other plant images, but it could be said that she excelled with orchids. Drake was prolific in her relatively short career, providing plates for Ladies Botany (1834-1837) and The Botanical Register (1815-1847), among others - for the latter she produced an astonishing 1,100 plates.
Miss Drake's best-known collaboration was with Augusta Innes Withers on the drawings for the monumental work Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala by James Bateman. Immediately afterwards, when Drake's career ended because the Botanical Register had to close its doors in London in 1847, she returned to Norfolk to look after elderly relatives and moved in with her uncle Daniel Drake. In 1852 she married John Sutton Hastings, a wealthy farmer. The sensitive and caring Miss Drake died less than five years later on July 9, 1857, reportedly from diabetes, but it has been speculated that she may have suffered from cumulative poisoning from her paints. It was not until 2000 that a plaque commemorating her was placed on the parish church in whose graveyard she is now buried.
Miss Drake, or Sarah Anne Drake, was a botanical artist and illustrator. She was born in 1803 in Skeleton, Norfolk, in the United Kingdom, and was a childhood friend of Anne Lindley, wife of the botanist John Lindley. In 1830 Miss Drake moved into the Lindleys' house in London and lived with the family until 1847. It is not clear in what capacity she was brought into the household (possibly as governess to the children), but her talent was soon recognized by Lindley, who set her to work as an illustrator of plant specimens. Soon after she moved into the household, then, Lindley began training Miss Drake. Miss Drake was called "Ducky" in the family and gradually developed into a very talented botanical artist. She became very accomplished and illustrated many of the pictures in Lindley's publications and also in other works such as Edwards' Botanical Register. In 1840 Lindley named the genus Drakaea in her honour when he described the specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony as a single species, Drakaea elastica.
Although Miss Drake was a gifted orchid illustrator, Drake's illustrations were by no means only of orchids, she also created numerous other plant images, but it could be said that she excelled with orchids. Drake was prolific in her relatively short career, providing plates for Ladies Botany (1834-1837) and The Botanical Register (1815-1847), among others - for the latter she produced an astonishing 1,100 plates.
Miss Drake's best-known collaboration was with Augusta Innes Withers on the drawings for the monumental work Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala by James Bateman. Immediately afterwards, when Drake's career ended because the Botanical Register had to close its doors in London in 1847, she returned to Norfolk to look after elderly relatives and moved in with her uncle Daniel Drake. In 1852 she married John Sutton Hastings, a wealthy farmer. The sensitive and caring Miss Drake died less than five years later on July 9, 1857, reportedly from diabetes, but it has been speculated that she may have suffered from cumulative poisoning from her paints. It was not until 2000 that a plaque commemorating her was placed on the parish church in whose graveyard she is now buried.
.jpg "Bulbophyllum Eberhardtii or Bulbophyllum Longiflorum (as syn. Cirrhopetalum Thouarsii) by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Sobralia Macrantha, c.1837-43 by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651700).jpg "Dendrobium lindleyi by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651741).jpg "Cattleya intermedia by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Laelia Furfuracea by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-652492).jpg "Illustration of Dactylorhiza foliosa (as syn. Orchis foliosa) by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-652006).jpg "Bulbophyllum umbellatum (spelled Bolbophyllum umbellatum) by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Laelia rubescens by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Mormodes atropurpurea by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651910).jpg "Bletilla striata by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Illustration of Encyclia incumbens by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651823).jpg "Mormodes lineata by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Orchid: Brassavola Glauca, Published by I. Ridgway by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Graphorkis lurida or Graphorchis lurida by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-607404).jpg "Rhynchostylis retusa by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-607404).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-653151).jpg "Tolumnia guttata (as syn. Oncidium luridum var. guttatum) by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-654296).jpg "Gomesa crispa by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-654296).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651827).jpg "Cuitlauzina pendula by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Illustration of Phalaenopsis aphrodite subsp. aphrodite (as syn. Phalaenopsis amabilis Lindl., nom. illeg.) by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-652319).jpg "Coelogyne nitida (as syn. Coelogyne ochracea) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-652319).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-652861).jpg "Rhynchostele cervantesii by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Cattleya Granulosa by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651793).jpg "Cymbidium aloifolium by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Galeandra baueri by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Aerides crispum by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-652005).jpg "Bromheadia finlaysoniana (as syn. Bromheadia palustris) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-652005).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651670).jpg "Epidendrum Macrocarpum (as syn. Epidendrum Schomburgkii) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651670).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-654282).jpg "Cochleanthes flabelliformis by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-654282).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651895).jpg "Ophrys scolopax subsp. cornuta by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Brasiliorchis picta by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-653817).jpg "Encyclia plicata (as syn. Epidendrum plicatum) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-653817).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651795).jpg "Prosthechea vitellina by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Gongora fulva by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651809).jpg "Eria ornata by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651809).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651814).jpg "Eria spicata by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651814).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651706).jpg "Catasetum cernuum by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651706).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651708).jpg "Encyclia gracilis by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Mexicoa ghiesbreghtiana (as syn. Odontoglossum warneri var. purpuratum) by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651794).jpg "Rhynchostele maculata by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651794).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651758).jpg "Cynorkis fastigiata by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Epidendrum dipus by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651739).jpg "Brassavola subulifolia by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651739).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-652772).jpg "Epidendrum Cristatum (as syn. Epidendrum Raniferum) by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Dendrobium taurinum by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-653909).jpg "Bulbophyllum Auratum (as syn. Cirrhopetalum Auratum) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-653909).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-653895).jpg "Brassia Cochleata (as syn. Brassia Lawrenceana) by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Epidendrum cinnabarinum by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651716).jpg "Lockhartia acuta by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651716).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651856).jpg "Encyclia adenocaula by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651856).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-652572).jpg "Angraecum mauritianum (as syn. Angraecum gladiifolium) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-652572).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651740).jpg "Prescottia stachyodes by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Ophrys fuciflora or Ophrys holoserica by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Rhynchostylis gigantea subsp. violacea (as syn. Vanda violacea) by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-654280).jpg "Catasetum discolor by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-654280).jpg)
.jpg "Oncidium cebolleta by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Lacaena bicolor by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-652487).jpg "Illustration of Eulophia alta (as syn. Cyrtopodium woodfordii) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-652487).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651766).jpg "Thunia alba by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651766).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651853).jpg "Aerides odoratum by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651853).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-652521).jpg "Illustration of Thrixspermum calceolus (as syn. Sarcochilus calceolus) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-652521).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651722).jpg "Plectrelminthus caudatus by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651722).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651891).jpg "Bulbophyllum medusae by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651891).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651813).jpg "Oncidium graminifolium by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651813).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-845686).jpg "Lycaste macrophylla (as syn. Lycaste plana) by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Leptotes bicolor by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Epidendrum Vitellinum by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651772).jpg "Promenaea stapelioides by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651772).jpg)
.jpg "Coelogyne speciosa by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Acanthephippium javanicum by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651752).jpg "Bulbophyllum cocoinum by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651752).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-652495).jpg "Illustration of Tolumnia pulchella (as syn. Oncidium pulchellum) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-652495).jpg)
.jpg "Bletia reflexa by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-652240).jpg "Eulophia Pulchra by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-652240).jpg)
.jpg "Comparettia coccinea by Miss Drake")
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.jpg "Prosthechea Vespa by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651698).jpg "Bartholina burmanniana by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651698).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651831).jpg "Acineta superba by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651831).jpg)
.jpg "Pholidota imbricata by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651890).jpg "Cattleya mossiae by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651890).jpg)
.jpg "Maxillaria rufescens by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651850).jpg "Prosthechea pterocarpa by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651850).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651759).jpg "Cirrhaea loddigesii by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651759).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651731).jpg "Barkeria skinneri by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651731).jpg)
.jpg "Vandopsis lissochiloides by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651784).jpg "Cyrtochilum aureum by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651784).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-605354).jpg "Illustration of Cattleya Skinneri (or Guarianthe Skinneri) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-605354).jpg)
.jpg "Eria polyura by Miss Drake")
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_published_by_I_Ridgway_-_(MeisterDrucke-1118300).jpg "Aerides Crispum (orchid) by Miss Drake")
_published_by_I_Ridgway_-_(MeisterDrucke-1118300).jpg)
.jpg "Myrmecophila grandiflora by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-651756).jpg "Paphiopedilum purpuratum by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651756).jpg)
 (Stanhopea grandiflora - (MeisterDrucke-651764).jpg "Stanhopea × quadricornis Lindl. (1838) by Miss Drake")
 (Stanhopea grandiflora - (MeisterDrucke-651764).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-651701).jpg "Chelyorchis ampliata by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-651701).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-652244).jpg "Cattleya Walkeriana by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-652244).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-652206).jpg "Dendrobium moschatum (as syn. Dendrobium cupreum) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-652206).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-609471).jpg "Lycaste Aromatica (as syn. Maxillaria Aromatica) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-609471).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-652491).jpg "Illustration of Geodorum densiflorum (as syn. Geodorum fucatum) by Miss Drake")
 - (MeisterDrucke-652491).jpg)
.jpg "Illustration of Grammatophyllum scriptum var. scriptum (as syn. Grammatophyllum multiflorum var. tigrinum) by Miss Drake")
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 Sw (This drawin - (MeisterDrucke-652150).jpg "Illustration of Oncidium altissimum (Jacq.) Sw. (This drawing is NOT Oncidium baueri, see disambiguation page Oncidium altissimum) by Miss Drake")
 Sw (This drawin - (MeisterDrucke-652150).jpg)
.jpg "Odontoglossum Grande by Miss Drake")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-653811).jpg "Sauroglossum nitidum (as syn. Sauroglossum elatum) by Miss Drake")
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