Phoebe Anna Traquair
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Phoebe Anna Traqauir (1852 – 1936) was an Irish artist, noted for her role in the Arts and Crafts movement, as an illustrator, painter and embroiderer.
She illuminated a book of Sonnets from the Portuguese by the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a key Arts and Crafts manuscript. A copy is held by the National Library of Scotland and an illumated manuscript is available on the Internet.[1]
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- Dr Elizabeth Cumming, Phoebe Anna Traquair, 2005, National Galleries of Scotland/National Museums of Scotland
